Evolution and network proxy

Hi

I'm trying to set up an IMAP account in Evolution (3.24.6-1.fc26) that would connect through a network proxy. I've also have other IMAP accounts in Evolution so I just want this one account to go through a proxy. I thought it would just be to go to Network Preferences and define a custom proxy, but it doesn't work. Evolution displays a question mark next to the account.  What I did was to define a Socks Proxy at localhost:9050 and tag this one account to use it. I know that the proxy works fine, because if I tell Gnome to use it in All Settings -> Network that for example Firefox uses that proxy.

Am I missing something here?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 21:23 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to set up an IMAP account in Evolution (3.24.6-1.fc26) that would connect through a network proxy. I've also have other IMAP accounts in Evolution so I just want this one account to go through a proxy. I thought it would just be to go to Network Preferences and define a custom proxy, but it doesn't work. Evolution displays a question mark next to the account.  What I did was to define a Socks Proxy at localhost:9050 and tag this one account to use it. I know that the proxy works fine, because if I tell Gnome to use it in All Settings -> Network that for example Firefox uses that proxy.
>
> Am I missing something here?

You might want to ask on the Evolution list:

https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list

Don't forget to mention your exact version (as above).

poc

[Ulf Volmer]

On 29.11.2017 22:23, [e-mail] wrote:
> I'm trying to set up an IMAP account in Evolution (3.24.6-1.fc26) that would connect through a network proxy. I've also have other IMAP accounts in Evolution so I just want this one account to go through a proxy. I thought it would just be to go to Network Preferences and define a custom proxy, but it doesn't work. Evolution displays a question mark next to the account.  What I did was to define a Socks Proxy at localhost:9050 and tag this one account to use it. I know that the proxy works fine, because if I tell Gnome to use it in All Settings -> Network that for example Firefox uses that proxy.

AFAIK it should be possible to configure a socks proxy in evolution
settings and add all other imap servers you are using to the 'ignore hosts'.

best regards
Ulf