Re: [Evolution] Error sending mail after upgrading to 1.4.0

["Fernando J. Andrade Palacios" <jotawolf yahoo com>]

Thank Guenther it worked!

For the record, problem solved.
Edit /etc/host and delete everything that is not basic
for the proper work of the system, delete comments,
blank unused espaces and be really carefull to put
only one tab between items.
Then this thing work, I'm really happy cuz 1.4.0 look
better and have more functionality (also more bugs but
it's normal =) ).
Thanks to Jeffrey and Guenther again.

Fernando.


--- Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com> wrote:
> yea, I just submitted a FAQ request to the support
> guys, hopefully
> they'll be adding it to the support site soon.
> 
> btw, when I said we didn't really know how to work
> around it, I meant
> from an evo source code point-of-view. I don't think
> we can really ask
> every user to uncomment their /etc/hosts files :-(
> 
> actually, not even 100% sure that works in all cases
> yet anyway. but
> from the few people who have gotten back to me, it
> does seem to work.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:24, guenther wrote:
> > > your symptoms are the same as a few other users
> who are suffering from a
> > > bug in glibc 2.3.2 where the gethostbyaddr_r()
> function fulls the
> > > hostname string with garbage (sometimes with
> \n's) and so when Evolution
> > > sends the EHLO <hostname> command, it
> unknowingly sends a \n or 2 and
> > > gets the client and server out of sync.
> > > 
> > > unfortunately we have no idea how to work around
> this glibc bug :-(
> > 
> > Jeff, about a week ago you posted a possible
> workaround, that at least
> > seemed to play more nice with buggy glibc:
> > 
> > Remove all unnecessary chars from /etc/hosts --
> that means any comments,
> > blank lines and additional spaces.
> > 
> > Full post in archives:
> >
>
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-June/030217.html
> > 
> > 
> > Fernando: I dunno if that will solve your problem,
> but it will be worth
> > a try.
> > 
> > As this bug seems to be related to /etc/hosts (do
> you actually use this
> > local file for resolving SMTP server?) you can try
> removing this local
> > line and instead use a DNS server.
> > 
> > ...guenther
> -- 
> Jeffrey Stedfast
> Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
> fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com
> 


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