Re: [Evolution] Unable to send mail!

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

This sounds like the connect timeout problem?

Are you a decent ping-time from your smtp server, or on a busy link?

On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 02:22, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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
>
> -- 
> Jeffrey Stedfast
> Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
> fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com
>
>
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