On Tue, Aug 05, 2003, andrew fries wrote: > Could someone tell me whether Evolution is self-sufficient when sending mail, > or does it rely on some other daemon to perform this function?
Evolution, like most mail clients, talks simple SMTP -- enough to send mail to a relay. > I have this problem on a freshly installed Arch Linux system: Evolution will > not send my mail (though it will receive OK), responding to all attempts with > this message: > > error while performing operation: MAIL FROM response error: command > unrecognized:"" A very simple SMTP (mail protocol) session looks like this (client.example.com is connecting to relay mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via the mail relay relay.example.com). The numbers (220, 250, 354, 221) and the commands in capitals (HELO, MAIL, RCPT, DATA, QUIT) are the important parts of the protocol. client.example.com connects to port 25 of relay.example.com relay.example.com says: "220 relay.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)" client.example.com says: "HELO client.example.com" relay.example.com says: "250 relay.example.com" client.example.com says: "MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" relay.example.com says: "250 Ok" client.example.com says: "RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" relay.example.com says: "250 Ok" client.example.com says: "DATA" relay.example.com says: "354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>" client.example.com says: "This is the mail." client.example.com says: "." relay.example.com says: "250 Ok: queued as 867CC1018C" client.example.com says: "QUIT" relay.example.com says: "221 Bye" relay.example.com closes the connection. The bit of this you should recognise is MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED], because you're getting an error message about MAIL FROM. This looks like one of the following: - this version of Evolution can't talk basic SMTP (very unlikely) - whatever mail relay Evolution is trying to use is having some problems (most likely: it isn't actually a mail relay) The first thing to check is to dig around in the settings of Evolution and KMail and make sure they're set to use the same mail relay/SMTP server/mail server (different names for the same thing) to send mail. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
