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Date:      Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:16:48 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        troy@twisted.net
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Evolution not sending FQDN
Message-ID:  <422C8C80.2060006@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1110204054.1739.14.camel@think>
References:  <1110148796.1694.2.camel@think.twisted.net> <1110164114.27718.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1110165367.1739.6.camel@think> <1110204054.1739.14.camel@think>

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Troy wrote:
| Guys,
|
| I originally started E-mailing with the Ximian team and figured to send
| it to you as well.  I have attached the thread below.  When I send
| E-mail from Evolution, it's not properly getting the hostname of my
| workstation and sending EHLO with localhost.localdomain.  I think we
| need to examine the way Evolution tries to get the hostname and modify
| it so it works properly for FreeBSD.

Sure, please submit a patch.

Joe

|
| Thoughts?
|
| -Troy
|
|
|
|
| On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 21:16 -0600, Troy wrote:
|
|>Jeff,
|>
|>I'm not sure what functions you are using, but we need to modify those
|>functions accordingly.  I have tested three other MUA's and all of them
|>get the hostname of the machine properly.  The operating system is
|>FreeBSD using the stable train of RELENG_5 (currently 5.4).  FreeBSD
|>also uses Linux emulation so I imagine that using basic Linux calls
|>should work as well. We can test/verify based on what you are using to
|>call the hostname if you let me know.
|>
|>Is there a place I can statically put in the hostname of the machine so
|>you don't send a non-RFC compliant EHLO using localhost.localdomain
|>
|>Thanks,
|>-Troy
|>
|>On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 21:55 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
|>
|>>if it uses "localhost.localdomain" then the functions to get your system
|>>hostname are failing. there's nothing we can do about that.
|>>
|>>Jeff
|>>
|>>On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 16:39 -0600, Troy wrote:
|>>
|>>>Jeff,
|>>>
|>>>I found your thread with a previous user about Evolution not sending the
|>>>FQDN of the workstation.  I have a strange scenario.  My evolution
|>>>client is constantly sending EHLO localhost.localdomain to my mailserver
|>>>rather than it's FQDN. Nowhwere in my machine (i.e. hosts file) is the
|>>>localhost.localdomain used.
|>>>
|>>>The client I'm using clearly has a DNS name and certainly should  be
|>>>using that as it's EHLO.
|>>>
|>>>I've tried searching for a resolution, but because so many people use
|>>>evolution and it's been using that nomenclature for so long, I cannot
|>>>get any type of solution.
|>>>
|>>>Please let me know if there is already a patch or how I can fix this.
|>>>Evolution should clearly send EHLO as it's FQDN.
|>>>
|>>>Thanks,
|>>>
|>>>-Troy
|>>>
|>>>
|>>>
|
|
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
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