evolution: problem sending email

[ted leslie]

ping the smtp server see if you get packet drops, or very poor bandwidth.

I tend to think it was the smtp server, but then, if others are getting to it no problem?

try another email program to aid in the detective work, should be about a 4 minute task?

i experienced a freaky problem once,
i could web browser, but had issue with ftp (and other stuff - probably email),
turns out i had a noisy cat 5 wire hookup
that suffered from certain types of traffic and not others, bizzar as hell,
straightened out the cable and then fine.

but yeah, just get another email program hookup to rule in or out stuff.
also you could tcpdump your wire, and compare it to a sucessful one,
to maybe see some useful info.



-tl


On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:26:17 -0400
Terrence Enger <tenger-P1ovA8G34VBEfu+5ix1nRw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am using Evolution 2.22.2 on Ubuntu Hardy.
> 
> At least one of my available SMTP servers requires authentication.
> (Natch!)  Sometimes, Evolution prompts for my password on that server,
> and the transmission succeeds.  Sometimes, despite everything I can
> think of trying, Evolution does not prompt for the password, and the
> server reports "Relay access denied".  The latter situation is more
> common, to the extent that I expect to have to paste this message into a
> telnet session at the command prompt.
> 
> ( Well, I just (Monday, 14:16) succeeded once again.  Holding off on
> sending this.   Okay, I have had a couple of hours of good usage.  Now,
> 16:20, its failing again.)
> 
> Along the way, I have taken the menu option File > Forget passwords, I
> have checked and unchecked the "remember password" option, I have
> cancelled all Evolution jobs and restarted Evolution, and I have deleted
> and reentered the mail account.  My question on ubuntuforums.org has
> brought no response.  The debugging output suggested by
> <http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml> has been helpful
> only to the extent of pointing my suspicions to Evolution rather than
> the SMTP server.  Some of the reported bugs I found sound similar to my
> situation, but still a bit different.
> 
> Sigh!  I would appreciate any suggestions about what I can do or what I
> should read.  
> 
> 
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