Re: [Evolution] SSL Heartbleed Patch Causes Evolution to Fail

[Marc Hurst <marc hurst independentgeo com>]

Good morning  Patrick.Thank you for replying.

The problem appears to have begun at the time that the patch was 
applied. Evo worked fine in the morning, before the patch, but not in 
the afternoon or since then.

The ISP rep.s do not believe the Heartbleed Fix caused the problem.

They claim that no other changes were made that day.

My account does not appear to be blocked; it works fine with Icedove.

Perhaps I should ask a different question. Are you aware of any recent 
server modifications that might affect Evo but not Icedove?


On 04/12/2014 05:12 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 19:37 -0400, Marc Hurst wrote:
> > Yesterday, my ISP applied an SSL Patch for "the heartbleed problem".
> > Although I am not using SSL, the patch caused Evolution to fail on all 3
> > of my computers.
> >
> > I press "Send and Receive", A dialog box says "Receiving message 1 of
> > XXX". After a very long wait, eventually I Evolution gives an error
> > message "Failed to receive message xxxxxxxxxxxxx: Unknown reason."
> >
> > I've had to switch to Icedove. Evolution no longer works with my ISP.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?
> IMHO this is unlikely to be caused by the Heartbleed fix. AFAIK the
> patch to fix OpenSSL doesn't affect normal SSL operation in any way and
> is completely transparent to well-behaved clients (i.e. those not trying
> to hack the server). I don't know of any other reports of client-side
> failure (not just of Evo but of anything else) due to this.
>
> The failure could be related to the ISP restarting its servers, or
> blocking their customers' accounts until they change their password, or
> them making some other change at the same time, or to something
> completely unrelated.
>
> poc
>
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