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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

no problem dude, glad it is workin for ya now ;-)

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 15:50, Fernando J. Andrade Palacios wrote:
> 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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