Curt:

Don't know about Evolution because I use Mozilla Thunderbird, but if I
had to guess, I would almost be willing to bet this will be what you are
looking for, at least from your description of the problem.

Potential fix =======================================================

1) Launch HSOconnect and bring the network up, then open a terminal
window to verify the file permissions on the "/etc/resolv.conf" file.

        ls -l /etc/resolv.conf

        If the mode is 600 (-rw------- )rather than the correct 644             
(-rw-r--r-- ) it should be, changing the mode of the file to                    
it's
proper setting will provide a quick temporary fix.

        sudo chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf

        Firefox and Evolution should then work normally without                 
        requiring
sudo, but as I said this is only a temporary fix.
        Every time you bring the network up you would have to change the        
file
mode again.

2) If step 1 above temporarily helped, you can elect to install another
package which will provide a permanent fix.

        sudo apt-get install resolvconf

I have found the HSOconnect tools work best if you also install the
resolvconf package to maintain and update the contents of the
/etc/resolv.conf file.    Without the resolvconf package installed
something in the HSOconnect stuff defaults /etc/resolv.conf to 600 every
time you use HSOconnect which breaks a lot of network things.

As a minimum, I would gracefully shutdown hsoconnect and re-boot after
installing resolvconf, but I don't know if this graceful shutdown and
reboot is actually required.

I don't remember if I re-built and re-installed the HSO packages after I
installed the resolvconf package or not.    You may need to have the
resolvconf package already installed when you build and install the HSO
stuff, I just do not remember.

This potential resolvconf fix should help Evolution, Firefox and just
about any other network application.

===================================================

I strongly suspect the above will fix your problem.  If this really is
the problem then the breakage is a lot bigger than just Evolution and
Firefox.

If this does not fix it, I have something else you can try which is
Firefox specific.

Later

Pat Hickel

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