Re: [Evolution] Smtp problems after updating today to Evo 1.4.4

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 08:41, John Harlow wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 23:48, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:54, John Harlow wrote:
> > > 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...) 
> >
> > another solution is to remove all blank lines and all comments from
> > /etc/hosts
> Sorry, forgot to mention that I did that, however, I'm getting my name
> resolution from DNS. I added the entries to /etc/hosts (no blank lines,
> etc..) and it made no difference.

might be something else then...

export CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1; evolution-1.4

this will log the SMTP (as well as POP/IMAP/etc) traffic and maybe it
will provide clues as to the problem.

Jeff

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