Bug#432584: evolution: Cannot send via SMTP server on port != 25
severity 432584 important thanks I believe this is an important bug, since it implies two major drawbacks to the user: (1) The UI does not provide an option to specify the SMTP port which is to be used. It can be set via 'smtp.xxx.yyy:port', sure, but this isn't documented anyhere! I think there should be either (a) a field next to the server adress where you can specify the port -- and which is defaulted to 25 -- or there should be (b) an example or some other kind of hint that explains to me what I am supposed to type into the address field. A nice example for this hint is in the cookies dialog of current epiphany-browser where it tells me what only from sites you visit means. A small text line telling me To specify a different port than 25 for SMTP, please use the following syntax: smtp.mailserver.com:port or similar would help a lot! (2) Once I've got this far and found out how to specify the SMTP port, Evolution omits it and still sends over port 25 if it is available. WTF?! I mean, my service provider begs me to use a different port than 25, I manage to change the port and finally Evolution decides to use the default port, because it is still available. What does Evolution think it is to override my settings? FAIL! ;) Please change the order to first use the port I specified and then fall back to the default port 25 only if it failed. Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: greffr...@leat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#432584: [Evolution] Bug#432584: evolution: Cannot send via SMTP server on port != 25
On ven, 2009-01-30 at 09:44 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: severity 432584 important thanks I believe this is an important bug, since it implies two major drawbacks to the user: I disagree. (1) The UI does not provide an option to specify the SMTP port which is to be used. It can be set via 'smtp.xxx.yyy:port', sure, but this isn't documented anyhere! I think there should be either (a) a field next to the server adress where you can specify the port -- and which is defaulted to 25 -- or there should be (b) an example or some other kind of hint that explains to me what I am supposed to type into the address field. address:port is the standard way to do that, everywhere. That's exactly the way you set it in an address bar in whatever browser, if you want not to use the default port. Sure a tooltip would be nice. Severity wishlist, will see if there's something like that on GNOME bugzilla. (2) Once I've got this far and found out how to specify the SMTP port, Evolution omits it and still sends over port 25 if it is available. WTF?! I mean, my service provider begs me to use a different port than 25, I manage to change the port and finally Evolution decides to use the default port, because it is still available. What does Evolution think it is to override my settings? FAIL! ;) I can't reproduce this. I use an ssh tunnel to send mail, and as I want to make the tunnel as user, I use localhost:8025 as smtp address. It work fine since ages. And I tried to open localhost:25, and nothing happens on that port, it correctly use the 8025 port. Are you sure you've configured the right account? Remember if you have multiple “from” accounts that you can configure an smtp server for each one, so double check that please. So really I don't think it's an Important bug. -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#432584: [Evolution] Bug#432584: Bug#432584: evolution: Cannot send via SMTP server on port != 25
notfound #432584 2.22.3.1-1 thanks On ven, 2009-01-30 at 12:44 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: I can't reproduce this. I use an ssh tunnel to send mail, and as I want to make the tunnel as user, I use localhost:8025 as smtp address. It work fine since ages. And I tried to open localhost:25, and nothing happens on that port, it correctly use the 8025 port. Oh wait. I missed the fact you were running it on etch, sorry. It seems fixed on Lenny at least :) -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#432584: [Evolution] Bug#432584: evolution: Cannot send via SMTP server on port != 25
severity 432584 wishlist thanks Yves-Alexis Perez schrieb: address:port is the standard way to do that, everywhere. That's exactly the way you set it in an address bar in whatever browser, if you want not to use the default port. Sure a tooltip would be nice. Severity wishlist, will see if there's something like that on GNOME bugzilla. Alright, then I wish a tooltip for this in a future release. ;) I can't reproduce this. I use an ssh tunnel to send mail, and as I want to make the tunnel as user, I use localhost:8025 as smtp address. It work fine since ages. And I tried to open localhost:25, and nothing happens on that port, it correctly use the 8025 port. Are you sure you've configured the right account? Remember if you have multiple “from” accounts that you can configure an smtp server for each one, so double check that please. I originally wanted to rant about the missing hint how to use the address:port syntax in the mailserver setup window. Thus I searched for existing bug reports against evolution and stumbled upon #432584, reported by Robert Kroiss on 10 Jul 2007, which describes a similar problem. However, he found out that the port given in the address line is simply ignored as long as the standard port is available. I have to admit I have blindly taken this for true and added a rant about this to my initial rant about the missing tooltip. I am sorry if this issue has been fixed in the meantime and is not true anymore. Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: greffr...@leat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#432584: evolution: Cannot send via SMTP server on port 25
Package: evolution Version: 2.6.3-6etch1 Severity: normal There is no option to send via an SMTP server on another port than 25. In the sarge-version of evolution it worked to put e.g. localhost:14301 into the server option to use another port. In this version the :14301 is ignored and the SMTP server on port 25 is used without a warning or error message. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages evolution depends on: ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii evolution-common 2.6.3-6etch1architecture independent files for ii evolution-data-server1.6.3-5etch1evolution database backend server ii gconf2 2.16.1-1GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-icon-theme 2.14.2-2GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gtkhtml3.8 3.12.1-2HTML rendering/editing library - b ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile00.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libavahi-client3 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi common library ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi glib integration library ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-3Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-5The Bonobo UI library ii libc62.3.6.ds1-13GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo21.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcamel1.2-81.6.3-5etch1The Evolution MIME message handlin ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libebook1.2-51.6.3-5etch1Client library for evolution addre ii libecal1.2-6 1.6.3-5etch1Client library for evolution calen ii libedataserver1.2-7 1.6.3-5etch1Utility library for evolution data ii libedataserverui1.2-61.6.3-5etch1GUI utility library for evolution ii libegroupwise1.2-10 1.6.3-5etch1Client library for accessing group ii libesd0 0.2.36-3Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libexchange-storage1.2-1 1.6.3-5etch1Backend library for evolution cale ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5+etch1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.16.1-1GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring00.6.0-3 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome-pilot2 2.0.15-2Support libraries for gnome-pilot ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-02.14.0-2A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-7The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.12.1-4GNOME 2.2 print architecture User ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.14.2-7 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error01.4-1 library for common error values an ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkhtml3.8-15 3.12.1-2HTML rendering/editing library - r ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-9 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg626b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries ii libnm-glib0 0.6.4-6 network management framework (GLib ii libnotify1 0.4.3-1 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libnspr4-0d 1.8.0.12-0etch1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-0d 1.8.0.12-0etch1 Network Security Service libraries ii liborbit21:2.14.3-0.1libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-01.14.8-5Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpisock9 0.12.1-5library for communicating with a P ii libpisync0 0.12.1-5
