[Evolution] Smtp problems after updating today to Evo 1.4.4

[John Harlow <JHarlow BravePoint com>]

My Evo (1.4.3) has been working perfectly for me on my SuSE 8.2 box.

Today Red-Carpet recommended an upgrade on some packages (including
Evolution) and I accepted it.

After the upgrade I could no longer send mail using SMTP (but sendmail
worked OK.)

To make a (very) long story short, I downgraded the evolution and
libsoup bits to the previous version and it didn't help. Then I found
some threads discussing the problem with gethostbyaddr_r so I tried
putting the IP address in the hostname field instead of the name. This
solved the problem (although it isn't an acceptable long-term solution
since this is a notebook I am on the road with all of the time, deal
with NAT'd networks, etc...) 

Once it was working I reinstalled the newer Evo and libsoup bits and it
still worked (using the IP address.)

This means that one of the other packages I updated today, introduced
the bug. Here is what was updated today (in
/var/cache/redcarpet/packages):

 evolution-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm
 gnome-utils2-2.2.3-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
 gnome-applets2-2.2.2-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm
 evolution-pilot-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm
 gtkhtml3.0-3.0.8-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
 libbonoboui-2.2.2-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
 libsoup-1.99.24-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
 libgtkhtml3.0_2-3.0.8-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
 libgtop2-2.0.2-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm
 libgal2.0_5-1.99.9-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
 rug-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
 gnome-system-monitor-2.0.4-25.ximian.7.5.i586.rpm
 oaf-0.6.10-199.ximian.7.6.i586.rpm

Any ideas on which of these packages did the deed? I found library files
in several of them, but I don't know much more than that.

Thanks
John

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