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Bug 106630
Summary: | evolution generates SMTP syntax errors, won't send mail | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp> |
Component: | evolution | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | chris.ricker, dkelson, lovelace |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2003-10-29 16:09:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 100643 |
Description
Jeremy Portzer
2003-10-08 22:41:22 UTC
I've seen this as well since May 2003. This is a glibc (2.3??) bug in parsing /etc/hosts You can reproduce the problem in 10 lines of C. No need for Evolution. glibc needs to be fixed, I don't know if the glibc guys know about the problem. The Ximian guys do for sure, but the attitude seems to be "not my problem". The work arround is to remove all comments from your /etc/hosts file. Thanks. I can confirm that removing all comments from /etc/hosts fixes the problem. This explains the mystery of where the non-existant "mail.example.com" came from in the above transcript; there was a comment with that string in it. Should this bug be reassigned to glibc then? Yeah, I think so. I can't believe the /etc/hosts parsing is very complex or big amounts of code, so the bug should be spotable by just inspecting the source code. Does the patch in http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-patches/2003-September/003016.html help? (I'll do a build and throw it up under http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/evolution-test/ when it's done, but I'm leaving town this afternoon and it may not be done before I leave) I've applied that patch and rebuilt (boy, evolution takes forever to build!) and this solves the problem for me. Thanks a lot, Jeremy. I will try to find out if the underyling glibc bug is known upstream to glibc folks or not. Okay, in my current tree and will be in the next build (should be -3) Rawhide version working well for me; closing. Thanks! |