Re: [Evolution] Error sending mail after upgrading to 1.4.0

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> your symptoms are the same as a few other users who are suffering from a
> bug in glibc 2.3.2 where the gethostbyaddr_r() function fulls the
> hostname string with garbage (sometimes with \n's) and so when Evolution
> sends the EHLO <hostname> command, it unknowingly sends a \n or 2 and
> gets the client and server out of sync.
>
> unfortunately we have no idea how to work around this glibc bug :-(

Jeff, about a week ago you posted a possible workaround, that at least
seemed to play more nice with buggy glibc:

Remove all unnecessary chars from /etc/hosts -- that means any comments,
blank lines and additional spaces.

Full post in archives:
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-June/030217.html


Fernando: I dunno if that will solve your problem, but it will be worth
a try.

As this bug seems to be related to /etc/hosts (do you actually use this
local file for resolving SMTP server?) you can try removing this local
line and instead use a DNS server.

...guenther


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