Bug#321931: exim4: problem sending via ssmtp in combination with evolution 2.2.3

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:05:55AM +0000, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> step to reproduce:
> 
> 1. send an email to an addressbook contact in the form of
> foobar <foo at bar.com>
> 
> actual result:
> 
> sometimes message is not accepted
> 
> reproducable:
> 
> seldom, but more often the same addressbook entries.
> 
> ways to circumvent:
> 
> rewrite address to "foo at bar.com" (so delete the "<>" and the name)
> 
> Maybe somebody could find out if this is a server problem or an evolution error?
> It is annoying if one wants to send an email quick. I also think than newer
> addressbook entries are not effected.

What do the exim logs say?

> If someboy could tell me how to log the full conversation  between server an
> client I will take a look and report back.

You can use a packet sniffer on the client system, or start the exim4
daemon with the -d option (copious output).

Greetings
Marc

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