Bug 49359

Summary:	IPv6 support in Evolution 1.4.6 doesn't work anymore for IMAP and SMTP
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Strauf <christian.strauf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christian Strauf 2004-04-29 01:17:09 UTC

My USE flags include "ipv6" since I initially installed the machine I'm having the trouble on. I've successfully compiled Evolution 1.4.5 on it and used it to contact mail servers (IMAP & SMTP) via IPv6. I've upgraded to Evolution 1.4.6 and it seems as if IPv6 support is not working anymore.

I've verified that the servers are all working, USE flags are set correctly and connectivity is working (telnet <imap-server> 143 works via IPv6).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure IMAP/SMTP server's FQDN that resolves into an IPv6 address (AAAA record in DNS)
2. Try to open an IMAP folder or try to check supported authentication type of server in server settings or try to send email to SMTP server.
3.

Actual Results:  
The following error message appears if you try to retrieve the supported
authentication types of a server (same message when you try to open a folder on
the server and same message with port 25 instead of 143 when trying to send
mails via SMTP):

Error while 'Checking Service':
Could not connect to ovaron.join.uni-muenster.de (port 143): Invalid argument

Expected Results:  
Access via IPv6 should work. If using IPv4 to contact the server, everything
works as expected.

Here's the output of "emerge info":

Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fexpensive-optimizations"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fexpensive-optimizations"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd evo foomaticdb gdbm gif
gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod
motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl opie oss pam pdflib perl
png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd
tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-01 08:01:25 UTC

Please re-open if this problem persists with evolution versions >= 2.