Re: [Evolution] Unable to send mail!

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 12:06, Bram Mertens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whenever Evolution tries to send my messages I get the following error:
> Error while performing operation:
> Could not connect to smtp.wanadoo.be (port (465): Resource temporarily 
> unavailable.

Seems your server does not support SSL.

> But this temporarily has been for the last 3 days...
> I haven't heard from my ISP yet, but I could send messages without a 
> problem using Eudora under Win98SE, so I gues that's not the problem.
>
> Before you ask: yes I have read the faq, yes I have the message about 
> authentication, but I tried all different settings: with and without SSL, 
> with and without authentication.  So is there some other setting I have 
> missed? Is it a strange error of my ISP? I'm lost...

Are you trying to send a *new* message? or one sitting in your Outbox?
The messages sitting in your Outbox havbe saved information about which
server and what SSL/AUTH/etc options you wanted to use to send that
message in an X-Evolution-Transport header, so if you edit
~/evolution/local/Outbox/mbox and remove all the X-Evolution-Transport
headers, it will use the account's config settings rather than the
hard-coded settings that were set when you first tried to send the
message.

> BTW how does Evolution determine the port? Is this a standard port used by 
> SMTP servers (like the 8080 port for http) or has Evolution already 
> contacted the server in some way?

It uses port 25 for normal SMTP or port 465 for SSL/SMTP (these are
standard ports).


In summary:

- change your settings to not use SSL and to not use any type of
authentication.

- shut down evolution

- edit ~/evolution/local/Outbox/mbox and remove all
X-Evolution-Transport headers.

- start up evolution

- hit Send & Receive

- all done


Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com