Comment 9 for bug 773908

Let me add additional observations: this seems to be at least partially a gnome issue. Ignoring hosts in proxy settings doesn't seem to work at all and any changes I make to proxy settings in some apps (chromium, synaptic) are applied globally when I tell it not to. Upon further inspection, choosing to change proxy settings in these apps opens the system proxy dialog. This being the case, it is necessary to set system proxy to Direct Internet Connection, start Evolution, then reset the proxy settings whenever I restart Evolution. In my case it's not a big deal since I run Evolution 24/7 and only restart it after a reboot. If it doesn't get fixed and irritates me too much, I may write a startup script for Evolution or do it from rc.local