Re: [Evolution] Why is evo fubaring smtp connections with a newline?

[Zot O'Connor <zot zotconsulting com>]

Hmmmm, I know I clear the comments and the newlines from hosts a while
ago, but there were both again.  If this makes it, its fixed!

Thanks!


On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 10:55, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> the EHLO argument has nothing to do with any settings in Evolution, it
> is simply the value that gets returned via gethostbyaddr_r() on the
> address returned via getsockaddr().
>
> The newline, too, comes from gethostbyaddr_r() (hostent->h_name
> contains the '\n') which is a bug in glibc.
>
> the workaround which has been mentioned on this list hundreds of times
> and is also in the FAQ is to remove all empty lines and all comments
> from /etc/hosts
>
> we also hacked in a work-around for this problem in the upcoming 1.4.6
> (that I *think* works, but I have no real way of testing since I was
> never able to reproduce this)
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 10:44 -0600, Zot O'Connor wrote:
>
> > I have noticed when I am not on my local LAN and have a bit of delay
> > evolution fubars the connection:
> >
> > received: A00035 OK Completed
> > sending : EHLO smtp.plansys.com
> >  
> > received: 250-mail3.zotnet.com
> > received: 250-PIPELINING
> > received: 250-SIZE 10240000
> > received: 250-VRFY
> > received: 250-ETRN
> > received: 250-XVERP
> > received: 250 8BITMIME
> > This server supports 8bit MIME
> > sending : MAIL FROM:<zot zotconsulting com>
> > received: 500 Error: bad syntax
> > sending : QUIT
> > received: 250 Ok
> > sending : B00007 LOGOUT
> > received: * BYE LOGOUT received
> >
> >
> > There are two HUGE errors here.
> >
> > First, why is Evo sening "EHLO smtp.plansys.com"  that is for a
> > different account!
> >
> > And why is it sending it a new line right after?
> >
> > BTW I removed smtp.plansys.com from the settings from the other account,
> > and it seems to be saved in the outbound mail!  The above log is after I
> > removed and grep for smtp.plansys.com in the settings directories.
> >
> > The blank line causes postfix to send the 500 message.
> >
> > This has been real consistent of late and therefore painful during
> > travel.
> >
> > RH9 (not XD2)
> > evolution-1.4.5-0.ximian.6.0
> >
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