NetworkManager - similar hassle , anyone ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:52 +0200, Kenn Thyrsted wrote:
> fre, 11 04 2008 kl. 16:39 +0930, skrev Tim:
> > If your IM client can't connect to its server, it's
> > probably offline.  Contrariwise, if your mail client can connect to
> > its
> > mail server, then that's all it needs to know.  It doesn't matter
> > whether internet access is there, as well.  It just needs access to
> > what
> > it needs to use (e.g. your mailserver could be local).
> 
> I am using a local mailserver.
> All i have to do is to click on the connector-icon at the lower left,
> thus telling Evolution to connect.

Which is *really* annoying when you have set the Prefs to "start up
online" and Evo thinks it's offline because NM is broken.

poc