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

[John Harlow <JHarlow BravePoint com>]

I have fixed the problem with SMTP and gethostbyaddr_r on my install.

As I said earlier I tried reinstalling earlier versions of Evo and
libsoup and it didn't help.

In desperation, I did a strings on all of the libraries (.so's)
installed by the red carpet updates of the rpm's listed below. I only
found one other package with references to gethostbyaddr_r in it. That
package was libgtop2. I uninstalled it (along with gnome-system-monitor
and gnome-applets2) and the problem disappeared. I then reinstalled the
original versions of these packages that came with my SuSE distribution
and everything still works.

I don't know what in libgtop2 affected this, but the library that I
found the call in was:
        /opt/gnome2/lib/libgtop_sysdeps-2.0.so.1.0.1

I probably could have just replaced it, but rpm -e followed by rpm -U
was easier.

Regards,

John
        

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:22, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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
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