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to suit your needs. For example, you can choose which mail
boxes are summarized, and which news services appear.
</para>
+
+
+ <note id="summary-http-proxy">
+ <title>Using the Summary through an HTTP Proxy</title>
+ <para>
+ If you use an HTTP proxy, <application>Ximian
+ Evolution</application> must be able to find it through the
+ <systemitem>gnome-vfs</systemitem> subsystem before it can
+ access news and weather from the Internet. This is also
+ the case if you wish to load remote images into HTML mail
+ message. You can tell the GNOME Virtual File System about
+ your HTTP proxy in one of two ways:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Configure it with Nautilus</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Open a Nautilus window
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Preferences</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Edit Preferences</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Go to the <guilabel>Navigation</guilabel> tab.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click the <guilabel>Use HTTP Proxy</guilabel>
+ checkbox and enter the location of your HTTP
+ proxy in the <guilabel>Location</guilabel> field.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Configure it with the gconftool command</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Open a terminal.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter the command
+ <command>
+ gconftool --type=bool --set /system/gnome-vfs/use-http-proxy "TRUE"
+ </command>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter the command
+ <command>
+ gconftool --type=string --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-host "your-proxy-url"
+ </command>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter the command
+ <command>
+ gconftool --type=int --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-port "8080"
+ </command>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more information about the gconftool command,
+ read the gconftool man page.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+
<sect2 id="customizing-summary-weather">
<title>Customizing the Weather Summary</title>
<para>