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Bug 248873 - SMTP errors misreported.
SMTP errors misreported.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other other
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-25 12:18 UTC by David Woodhouse
Modified: 2006-05-12 19:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description David Woodhouse 2003-09-25 12:18:18 UTC 
When attempting to send a mail via a server which isn't configured to allow
relaying, it says so...

received: 550 relay not permitted

Evolution doesn't see fit to give me this information. It brings up a
dialog box inventing a bogus reason instead...

'Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable'

I get a similarly bizarre and incorrect error report after the SMTP exchange 
sending : EHLO 2002:c1ed:8229::1
received: 501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s)
... upon asking evo to test an outgoing server for available auth types.

This time, evo declares the server 'does not appear to support SSL'.
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-09-25 14:27:53 UTC 
your server doesn't support ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES, so we default back to
sane default error messages as described by the rfc.

this is not a bug.
Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2006-03-26 02:31:29 UTC 
ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES is irrelevant. The server gave a plain text explanation of the error, which Evolution doesn't report. Making up error messages is broken.
Comment 3 Jeffrey Stedfast 2006-05-10 15:39:36 UTC 
this EHLO syntax bug was fixed quite a while ago now and there's another bug open about falling back to the server error messages (even when ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES is not supported by the server). so closing this report.
Comment 4 Jeffrey Stedfast 2006-05-12 19:42:06 UTC 
better smtp error messages bug is bug #341579