no problem dude, glad it is workin for ya now ;-) Jeff
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 15:50, Fernando J. Andrade Palacios wrote: > Thank Guenther it worked! > > For the record, problem solved. > Edit /etc/host and delete everything that is not basic > for the proper work of the system, delete comments, > blank unused espaces and be really carefull to put > only one tab between items. > Then this thing work, I'm really happy cuz 1.4.0 look > better and have more functionality (also more bugs but > it's normal =) ). > Thanks to Jeffrey and Guenther again. > > Fernando. > > > --- Jeffrey Stedfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
