evolution: problem sending email

[Terrence Enger]

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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