This may (and probably is) related to the bug in which evolution only checks network connection status with Network Manager.
Suggest doing additional network checks to not just assume network is down just because ONLY Network Manager says so. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404267 Title: no send/recieve Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: evolution Currently my send/recieve button is grayed out, therefore I cannot send or receive messages. This began today, I don't know how. I have restarted the computer and also reinstalled Evolution using Synaptic to no avail. I use Ubuntu 9.04. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/404267/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

