Re: [Evolution] Cannot send POP mail with Evolution 1.3.98 or 1.4

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I think you are running into the bug where evolution is sending:

EHLO <hostname>\n\r\n

and so the client and server are getting out of sync.

the reason this is happening, we've discovered, is that glibc has a bug
where it mis-parses /etc/hosts and sometimes appends a \n to the
hostname string.

in many cases, not only is a \n appended to the hostname, but the
hostname is even incorrect (glibc seems to just give us random string
chunks from the /etc/hosts file, sometimes even containing a \n in the
middle, sometimes containing a '#' character which denotes a comment,
etc)

anyways, I've been told that if you remove all comments from /etc/hosts
and all blank lines and so forth, glibc seems to work more reliably.

*shrug*

hope that helps,

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 21:10, Stephen Williams wrote:
> Evening all,
>    The output of CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 when trying to
> send mail is as follows:
>
> received: 250-imf20aec.bellsouth.net
> received: 250-HELP
> received: 250-PIPELINING
> received: 250-DSN
> received: 250-8BITMIME
> This server supports 8bit MIME
> received: 250 SIZE 10485760
> sending : MAIL FROM:<smwilliams bellsouth net>
> received: 500 Command unknown: ''
> sending : QUIT
> received: 250 Sender <smwilliams bellsouth net> Ok
>
>
> This began occurring as of 1.3.98 and in 1.4.  Any
> help is much appreciated.  I can revert to 1.3.3 if
> necessary, but I would much prefer to use 1.4 if
> possible.
>
> Thanks all, and sorry for not catching on to the way
> to debug sooner.  Considering I work in tech support,
> you'd think I would've  ;)
>
> Steve
>
>
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