Re: [Evolution] SMTP Error

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 15:07, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> lør, 2003-01-04 kl. 18:40 skrev Jeffrey Stedfast:
>
> > Well, if I was to hazard a guess based on a similar complaint in the
> > past... I'd say that your server doesn't like it when Evolution
> > re-EHLO's the SMTP server after a successful SASL authentication
> > sequence. In other words... your server is a hunk of crap and is not
> > rfc compliant (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2554.txt Section 4 under
> > "Discussion", paragraph 6 - pasted below for your convenience).
>
>
> One similar complaint?
> ______________________________
>
> 1025 [tonye:billy.demon.nl] /u/home/tonye $ telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220-billy.demon.nl ESMTP Exim 4.12 #1
> 220-Sat, 04 Jan 2003 20:49:39 +0100
> 220-
> 220-This service will automatically and silently
> 220 discard all unsolicited commercial mail
> ehlo localhost
> 250-billy.demon.nl Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
> 250-SIZE 2097152
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-AUTH PLAIN CRAM-MD5
> 250-STARTTLS
> 250 HELP
> mail from: tonye billy demon nl
> 250 OK
> data
> 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA
> _______________________________________
>
> If he don't have a "rcpt to:" in his mail, it will not work.

obviously. however, evolution afaik does not allow a user to queue a
message without recipients in the first place, so it would never get to
the SMTP code.

> Is he stupid? Is he sending all his mail to nobody?

I'm guessing that he has specified recipients, if he hasn't... well,
duh. but as I stated above, I am pretty sure it's not possible to do in
Evolution.
> Wake up, Jeffrey. you're usually one of the best, but too much on the
> defensive, lately. Perhaps pressure of work.

nah, I know exactly what I'm saying. There was a report a while back
that had the same symtoms but was caused by Evolution re-issuing a EHLO
command just after the SASL authentication sequence. Somehow the server
got into a weird state and accepted the RCPT TO: command but when we
tried to send DATA, it flopped.

Jeff

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