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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

yea, I just submitted a FAQ request to the support guys, hopefully
they'll be adding it to the support site soon.

btw, when I said we didn't really know how to work around it, I meant
from an evo source code point-of-view. I don't think we can really ask
every user to uncomment their /etc/hosts files :-(

actually, not even 100% sure that works in all cases yet anyway. but
from the few people who have gotten back to me, it does seem to work.

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:24, guenther wrote:
> > 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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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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