evolution config: SMTP or sendmail

[Pete Graner]

There is a workaround, remove all blank lines and comments from your
/etc/hosts file.

See:
http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution@lists.ximian.com/msg04076.html

Pete

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:49, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> When setting up my ISP e-mail account after installing Severn, I was
> unable to send mail. The only way I could make it work was to change the
> "Sending mail" server type setting from "SMTP" to "sendmail". This is
> not how evolution settings worked in the past.
> 
> My ISP runs sendmail on a host named smtp.peaknet.net.  In fact, there
> are two IP addresses with that FQN. For as far back as I can remember
> using evolution, I've configured evolution to point to smtp.peaknet.net
> and selected server type "SMTP".  That seems to be broken in Severn. I
> have to use server type "sendmail" even though sendmail is configured
> only for local host operation.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this apparent reversal?
> 
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL
> 
> 
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