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

[David Malcolm]

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
>