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 -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
