With only a dial up connection, i.e. no network, launching Evolution mail produces the following"Evolution is currently offline due to a network outage.
Evolution will return to online mode once a network connection is established."
Desktop: Gnome 3.2.1
Fedora 16 x86_64.
Machine: HP DC5750. AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ × 2
Memory: 1.8Gib
Disk: 153.6 GB

A solution has been found on the internet utilising a terminal and --force-online flag, however this produces the following, "(evolution:30586): evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: shell_settings_pspec_for_key: assertion `schema_name != NULL' failed", however evolution starts.
I would be most grateful if someone could provide a solution to launch evolution from the desk top as intended.

Additional info from demsg "[ 153.401649] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 162.426041] PPP Deflate Compression module registered"

Kind Regards,
R. John Kearsley