can't send mail from evo 1.3.3

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 16:54, Franz Klammer wrote:
> Am Mo, 2003-05-12 um 19.56 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:
> > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 15:32, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > > Am Mo, 2003-05-12 um 16.21 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:
> > > > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 12:17, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > > > > Joe Marcus Clarke sagte:
> > > > > > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 10:49, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > > > > >> hello!
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> i'm the only one that can't send any mail from evolution 1.3.3?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've been using it since 1.3.2, and I've never had a problem sending
> > > > > > mail.  Check your mail settings.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> i always get follwoing error:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> "Error while performing operation:
> > > > > >>  MAIL FROM response error: Unknown"
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do you have a sniffer trace showing the SMTP transaction?
> > > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > > i turned on debug output from postfix. looks like a bug.
> > > > > evolution-1.3.3 doesn't send a hostname with EHLO and my postfix-servers
> > > > > are always configured with smtpd_helo_required = yes.
> > > > 
> > > > Definitely file a bug with Ximian.
> > > 
> > > here's the answer form Ximian:
> > > 
> > > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42805
> > 
> > I'm not sure I follow what Jeff is saying.  If gethostbyname() fails,
> > then the returned hostent pointer will be NULL (and, in fact, it is). 
> > If you try to dereference he->h_name, you should get a seg fault.  I any
> > event, you might want to make sure gethostbyname() works for your
> > hostname.  Something like this should work:
> > 
> > #include <netdb.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > main(void) {
> >     char *host = "my.host.name";
> >     struct hostent *he;
> >     he = gethostbyname(host);
> >                                                                                 
> >     if (he == NULL) {
> >         printf("he is NULL\n");
> >     }
> >     else if (he->h_name == NULL) {
> >         printf("h_name is NULL\n");
> >     }
> >     else {
> >         printf("h_name is \"%s\"\n", he->h_name);
> >     }
> >                                                                                 
> >     return 0;
> > }
> > 
> 
> if i use you code as is then i get this output: »he is NULL«
> else if i change my.host.name to sisko.webonaut.com i get as
> output: »h_name is "sisko.webonaut.com"«
> ok! is there anything i should Jeff tell now or is this maybe 
> a gnome-2.3.1 thing? i did the gnome- and evo-update at the same
> time.

You can tell Jeff that gethostbyname is working as designed.  This very
well may be a GNOME 2.3 thing, but I can't be certain since I'm not
running Postfix.

Joe

> 
> franz.
> 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > > franz.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Joe
> > > > 
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