Bug 735652 – sending mail fails with "Error while Sending message. Cannot send message: service not connected."

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Bug 735652 - sending mail fails with "Error while Sending message. Cannot send message: service not connected."


Summary:	sending mail fails with "Error while Sending message. Cannot send message: se...


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 734853

Product:	evolution
Classification:	Applications
Component:	Mailer
Version:	3.12.x (obsolete)
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal major
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Evince Maintainers
QA Contact:	Evince Maintainers

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Reported:	2014-08-29 06:09 UTC by Paul Wise
Modified:	2014-09-04 09:50 UTC

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GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	3.11/3.12

Description Paul Wise 2014-08-29 06:09:23 UTC

I upgraded evolution and evolution-data-server from 3.12.2 to 3.12.5 and now I get this error with a send-only account that connects to a localhost port, which is forwarded over SSH to a server.

This error appears in the UI:

Error while Sending message.
Cannot send message: service not connected.
Cannot send message: service not connected.

These messages appear in the log files:

Aug 28 23:07:48 chianamo gnome-session[2165]: (evolution:2466): camel-CRITICAL **: network_service_connect_sync: assertion 'connectable != NULL' failed
Aug 28 23:07:48 chianamo gnome-session[2165]: (evolution:2466): camel-CRITICAL **: network_service_connect_sync: assertion 'connectable != NULL' failed
Aug 28 23:07:49 chianamo gnome-session[2165]: Window manager warning: last_focus_time (2913735) is greater than comparison timestamp (2913683).  This most likely represents a buggy client sending inaccurate timestamps in messages such as _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW.  Trying to work around...

Comment 1 Paul Wise 2014-08-29 06:11:30 UTC

I'm using GNOME and Evolution from Debian jessie.

Comment 2 Jordi Mallach 2014-09-04 09:50:22 UTC

Thanks Paul, this is a dupe of 734853, which is fixed by https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-data-server/commit/?h=evolution-data-server-3-12&id=f64da6b7b5f5f51d6c37a2c3dafc93c1f2bdd944

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 734853 ***