Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:55:12 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Byron Schlemmer <byrons@telkomsa.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Evolution 1.4.5 and gethostbyname() Message-ID: <1074894912.768.117.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1074850384.9997.24.camel@pan.home> References: <1074850384.9997.24.camel@pan.home>
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--=-rutGrZZ4ib4+sx3xiR2L Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 04:33, Byron Schlemmer wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > A while back I reported problems sending email through Evolution 1.4.4/5 > using the SMTP option with my ISPs SMTP server address. The original > email is this one : >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D252448+255442+/usr/local/ww= w/db/text/2003/freebsd-gnome/20031221.freebsd-gnome >=20 > Now, the other day I had to install Linux on a spare box due to hardware > failure on my primary desktop, then I noticed that I could send email > from it using Evolution 1.4.5 and the SMTP option. Odd. I've since fixed > the problem on my main desktop and reinstalled 5.2-RELEASE with GNOME > 2.4.2 and Evolution 1.4.5. I tried to send an email now from the newly > installed FreeBSD box, BOOM!, same error, namely : >=20 > Error while performing operation: > DATA termination response error: Requested action not taken: mailbox > unavailable. >=20 > I then used Ethereal to track down the transaction and compare the differ= ences > between the Linux box and my FreeBSD desktop. It seems for some reason th= e FreeBSD=20 > box is setting my hostname to my internal private IP address instead of m= y machines > name and the Linux box isn't and thats why the Linux box seems to work. H= ere is a top > of the transaction, first FreeBSD : >=20 > byrons@pan:~$ head freebsdstream.txt > 220 ctb-mesg2.saix.net ESMTP Postfix > EHLO [192.168.0.4] > 250-ctb-mesg2.saix.net > 250-PIPELINING > 250-SIZE 102400000 > 250-ETRN > 250 8BITMIME > MAIL FROM:<byrons@telkomsa.net> >=20 > Linux : >=20 > byrons@pan:~$ head linuxstream.txt > 220 ctb-mesg2.saix.net ESMTP Postfix > EHLO pan.home > 250-ctb-mesg2.saix.net > 250-PIPELINING > 250-SIZE 102400000 > 250-ETRN > 250 8BITMIME > MAIL FROM:<byrons@telkomsa.net> >=20 > As you can see the difference is EHLO, I tried my theory manually telneti= ng to port 25 > and trying with EHLO pan.home and then with EHLO 192.168.0.5 and it faile= d on the IP > address version, for obvious reasons.=20 >=20 > Now the million dollar question, why is FreeBSD sending the IP address an= d not the > hostname? Yes, I've checked both forward and reverse lookups work and tha= t `hostname` > prints the correct information. >=20 > Now, upon searching the web I found : >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2003-May/001056.html >=20 > and=20 >=20 > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D42805 >=20 > So it seems other people have had a similar problem, is FreeBSDs gethostb= yname() > returning the correct values? If so, why is Evolution setting the wrong h= ostname > and how do I fix it? Evo uses gethostbyname_r. However, this function is not available on FreeBSD, so Evo includes its own version. THAT may be buggy. Linux _does_ have gethostbyname_r, and thus the internal Evo function is not used. You may want to poke around the code, and see if something obviously wrong jumps out at you. Joe >=20 > Thanks, --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-rutGrZZ4ib4+sx3xiR2L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAEZg/b2iPiv4Uz4cRAskSAJ49gnvymDdltPaUn+ZoCeLiAFIt+wCaAr1k w5m5a2XhIrWM0K1sbxjHk7Q= =avjT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rutGrZZ4ib4+sx3xiR2L--
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