When trying to send emails, I get the following error: Error while performing operation: MAIL FROM response error: Syntax error, command unrecognized Even tried the forums fix located at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=69219&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=evolution+problems Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click "new" in evolution 2. Enter *ANY* email address 3. Click send Actual Results: Popup window saying Error while performing operation: MAIL FROM response error: Syntax error, command unrecognized Expected Results: Email should have been sent donald root # emerge --info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde gnome libg++ mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline bonobo java guile mysql X gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt opengl mozilla ldap" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
what i can deduce from the forum thread is that the problem is consistent over multiple evolution versions, and since i can send mail in both 1.4 and 1.4.3, im betting that it's something external to evolution that's influencing it. CFLAGS perhaps?, or a stale configuration settings (your ~/evolution directory)? could you try moving ~/evolution away, to ~/evolution.bak for example, and then try evolution again? my only concern is that i'm not sure how much evolution uses gconf to store settings, and how much it uses it's own configuration folder.
My CFLAGS are as listed in my emerge --info that I posted. I'm wondering if you're right.. stale configuration? I have a *TON* of data i need to keep, though I'm running on Fluxbox for my desktop, not GNOME. (Got tired of GNOME not letting me use the resolution/space I wanted...) I'll give it a try by backing up evolution to another directory.. see what happens. Thanks.
I just tried moving ~/evolution to ~/evolution.bak with no success.. same error al together. I'm beginning to think it's in the way my system here is built.. I've done *THREE* evolution updates since my Gentoo system went live 5 months ago... I'm beginning to think I got way too many problems on this thing! LOL
im inclined to think it has something todo with your mail setup, something like problems with your SMTP server. Please make sure it is not a problem on your side.
It was working fine prior to the update of Evolution. These problems gradually came up, and i can send mail just fine via smtp server on another client.
do you use a non C locale, if not try that. What is the emailaddy you use (since that seems to be the problem ?) . Have you tried compiling with no CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS set ?
Both with and without CFLAGS/CXFLAGS. Locale? What do you mean by that? And it errors out on *ANY* email address, including my own. At this point, I've wasted 4 days trying to resolve this problem, so I've more or less given up. This is a "development" workstation of sorts, and I've resorted to having to go back to M$ for my workstation purposes. gah.
seems awfully like these problems from ximian: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45510 make sure you don't have any comments in /etc/hosts, like : 192.168.0.3 mcvaio # my laptop glibc's implementation does not like comments on the same line, use this instead: # my laptop 192.168.0.3 mcvaio i'm very sure i answered something like this in the forums a while back where someone couldn't via SMTP.
*** Bug 26685 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The /etc/hosts file is the problem. I did not have any comments, but rather two hostnames. For a while I had the following entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost SlickBrick SlickBrick is my hostname, and haveing two hostname listed like this never offered any problem before and seemed to work just fine. (exept for evolution) I have not changed my hosts file to read: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.2 SlickBrick and everything is fine now. Thanks for pointing out the hosts file :) Mike M.
Opps, nevermind.... The hosts file didn't fix it after all. Sorry for the confusion. evolution sill can't send mail via SMTP Mike M.
have you tried 1.4.4 ? does that improve things?
Now that you mention it, no i have not. Maybe I should try sometime. I'm currently in the process of setting up a 2nd PC to put gentoo on it, since I run most of my stuff from my win32 box (XP pro on it), and am deseparately wanting to get away from Outlook :)
other bugs that look similar are: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43863 http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45271 try their suggestion of running evolution using: export CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG; evolution-1.4 and then look at the SMTP dumps which begin with "sending:"
Are you using postfix as your smtp server? If so: I did receive the same error from several mail clients after updating postfix. I did correct that error setting up the variable 'mynetworks' on file /etc/postfix/main.cf to the values '192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8'. After doing this, I could finally send mail with my smtp client, and my mail client stopped showing me any FORM errors anymore. Good luck!
I don't think it was my ISP's SMTP server, as I was able to send mail from just about any other client that I had access to (MS Outlook, outlook Express, Eudora). Only EVOLUTION couldn't send email. I think the ISP I have used Postfix for a SMTP relay server, but I can't be sure without asking them personally. I now have the most recent Ebuild, and am having no problems now. Musta been a bug issue in that particular evolution :(
the newest version seems to have fixed the problem for at least one reporter, is anyone else still experiencing problems after an upgrade here ?
evolution-1.4.5 shows the same error while trying to send mail. I've corrected the error editing file /etc/hosts and deleting all comment lines after the hosts declaration. I had a file with this structure: # /etc/hosts: This file describes a number of hostname-to-address # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. # On small systems, this file can be used instead of a # "named" name server. Just add the names, addresses # and any aliases to this file... # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/hosts,v 1.8 2003/08/04 20:12:25 azarah Exp $ # 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.2 craytech.nethide.com #some #other #comments You only need to delete lines containing comments at the end of the file (in this case, deleting lines containig #some, #other and #comments. I did this and now I'm able to send mail.
I am currently using the latest 1.4.5 evolution... no problems to report so far. Musta been 1.4.3...
well, then closing this bug now since 1.4.5 is now stable.
