Re: [Evolution] No outgoing mail

[Vicki Stanfield <vicki progeny com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 10:36 -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> I was using evolution with no problems until yesterday when mail stopped
> going out. I still receive mail with no problems. My setup is using smtp
> to obtain mail from a mail server in my network. I can send mail from my
> system with mutt or by telneting to the mail port directly. The only
> errors I see in the logs are these:
>
> Mar  2 10:16:32 oz rpc.statd[1615]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request
> from oz.progeny.com for 192.168.1.53
>
> which seems to occur whenever I try to send mail from evolution. The ip
> address that it lists is indeed the mail server. Googling for this error
> has been less than satisfying since the only references to this error
> message seem to refer to NFS. Incidently (or maybe not) my home
> directory and thus my Maildir is NFS mounted from that same mailserver system.
>
> I have checked that statd is running and that the permissions allow it
> to write to /var/lib/nfs/sm. Corresponding errors also appear in syslog
> on the mail server. Can someone point me to a source for how to
> fix this?
>
> Vicki

Since no one else answered, I will post the answer here for
completeness. Here is what I did to get evolution back to normal:

1) Shutdown evolution
2) apt-get remove --purge evolution (remove as per your distro)
3) mv ~/.evolution ~/something_else
4) gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/evolution
5) apt-get install evolution (reinstall as per your distro)
6) mv ~/something_else ~/.evolution
7) restart evolution

Everything should work fine then.

Vicki