[Evolution] Smtp problems after updating today to Evo 1.4.4

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:54, John Harlow wrote:
> My Evo (1.4.3) has been working perfectly for me on my SuSE 8.2 box.
> 
> Today Red-Carpet recommended an upgrade on some packages (including
> Evolution) and I accepted it.
> 
> After the upgrade I could no longer send mail using SMTP (but sendmail
> worked OK.)
> 
> To make a (very) long story short, I downgraded the evolution and
> libsoup bits to the previous version and it didn't help. Then I found
> some threads discussing the problem with gethostbyaddr_r so I tried
> putting the IP address in the hostname field instead of the name. This
> solved the problem (although it isn't an acceptable long-term solution
> since this is a notebook I am on the road with all of the time, deal
> with NAT'd networks, etc...) 

another solution is to remove all blank lines and all comments from
/etc/hosts

> 
> Once it was working I reinstalled the newer Evo and libsoup bits and it
> still worked (using the IP address.)
> 
> This means that one of the other packages I updated today, introduced
> the bug. Here is what was updated today (in
> /var/cache/redcarpet/packages):
> 
>  evolution-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm
>  gnome-utils2-2.2.3-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
>  gnome-applets2-2.2.2-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm
>  evolution-pilot-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm
>  gtkhtml3.0-3.0.8-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
>  libbonoboui-2.2.2-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
>  libsoup-1.99.24-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
>  libgtkhtml3.0_2-3.0.8-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
>  libgtop2-2.0.2-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm
>  libgal2.0_5-1.99.9-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
>  rug-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm
>  gnome-system-monitor-2.0.4-25.ximian.7.5.i586.rpm
>  oaf-0.6.10-199.ximian.7.6.i586.rpm

glibc is the lib with the bugs in gethostbyaddr_r, but that doesn't seem
to be in your list so I dunno.

Jeff

> 
> Any ideas on which of these packages did the deed? I found library files
> in several of them, but I don't know much more than that.
> 
> Thanks
> John
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj@ximian.com  - www.ximian.com