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help on setting up Evolution in wireless network with proxy

Asked by Bobby George

Hello.. I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I was able to use Evolution-gmail at home(broad band). Now I am at my college using wifi with proxy. Please help me to set up

1. Pidgin
2. Evolution - gmail

thanks...

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hello

Gnome has a global proxy config.

System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy

and fill in your details there then Evolution should pick them up and use them.

For pidgin

Open Pidgin and go to Add / Edit Account window of Pidgin.
From the drop-down box choose XMPP as the Protocol.
For the Screen name enter your Google Id (Gmail Id). eg. right2bhavi
For Server enter gmail.com

Pidgin GTalk
You can leave the Resource with the default. (i.e home)
In the Password field enter your Google ID password..
Enter Local alias as whatever you want to.

In the advanced tab,

Force old (port 5223) SSL: Checked
Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams: Un-Checked
Connect Port: 443
Connect Server: talk.google.com
Proxy type: Use Global Proxy Settings

instead of Setting proxy type as “Use Global Proxy Settings” do “127.0.0.1″ and set port as “8080″

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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Bobby George (bobigeorge) said : 		#2

Thank u very much for the help Bhavani...

Pidgin worked with gtalk.. but i still can't work on yahoo... And i did configure System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy. But evolution still dead lock at the sent receive. Waiting....

thanks in advance..

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Bobby George (bobigeorge) said : 		#3

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.

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AVI (tba448) said : 		#4

how did you fix the evolution problem? I am having the same problem,

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pes (pes) said : 		#5

I am having the same problem too. System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy doesn't work. Any ideas?

Better if for solving doesn't need socks clients like tsocks or dante

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AVI (tba448) said : 		#6

I stil did not figure out why mine will not work when I use the computer in
the library, but works fine when I use it somewhere else.
Sorry,

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> I am having the same problem too. System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy
> doesn't work. Any ideas?
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> Better if for solving doesn't need socks clients like tsocks or dante
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