Evolution 2.0 "Just Doesn't Work"; will not send

[David Robertson]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:49 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 13:39 -0500, Erik Hemdal wrote:
> > Situation:  Fresh install of FC3, plus all updates on Dell Latitude D600 
> > (Pentium 4, Intel 855 chipset)
> > 
> > Problem:  Evolution refuses to send email; receives messages just fine.
> 
> What happens when you click the "Send/Receive" button?
> 
> How are you sending email? SMTP?
> 
> Try running:
> CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 evolution
> 
> and see if that outputs any extra diagnostics on what's going wrong.
> 
> > 
> > Debugging steps:
> > 
> > Confirmed "server setup" with ISP.
> > No errors in any logs at all.
> > Confirmed that this setup works on an FC1 machine (works OK).
> > Verified that this hardware sends correctly (same laptop booted into 
> > Windows XP -- no problem)
> > Attempted to adjust all possible authentication methods in Evolution (no 
> > success).
> > Disabled iptables and SELinux controls - no joy.
> > Finally installed Thunderbird Mail: works perfectly.
> > 
> > I installed from healthy CD's and had no errors during installation. 
> > Evolution 1.4 is just fine as well.  I didn't find anything in the FC3 
> > release notes, but I might have missed something.
> > 
> > I admit it got pretty late last night, so I probably missed something. 
> > Anyone seen an issue like this?  I've never seen a client simply refuse 
> > to work without any errors/log messages/etc.
> > 
> > Erik
> > 
> 
Check smtp authorisation - it "loses" the settings quite frequently, I
find.

David
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