[Evolution] Smtp problems after updating today to Evo 1.4.4

[John Harlow]

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 23:48, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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
> 
Sorry, forgot to mention that I did that, however, I'm getting my name
resolution from DNS. I added the entries to /etc/hosts (no blank lines,
etc..) and it made no difference.
> > 
> > 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
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