Hoary Evolution cannot send email using SMTP and TLS
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| evolution (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Sebastien Bacher | ||
Bug Description
My mail server (mail.dunhackin
itself and all mail clients. After TLS is started, then a username/password is
sent to authenticate the mail client. This used to work fine with Evolution
under Warty, but now fails after I did "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" to Hoary.
The mail server is Postfix running on RedHat 9, but I don't think that matters.
The SSL certificate is self-signed, but I don't think that matters either.
This same mail server has worked all along with Mozilla Thunderbird -- and
that's Thunderbird on Warty, Thunderbird on Hoary, Thunderbird on Windows, etc.
Oh, and Evolution also works with this mail server when run from Fedora Core 2
and 3.
My current Evolution package is 2.2.1.1-0ubuntu.
| Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote | #1 |
| Hal Eisen (eisen) wrote | #2 |
You have two solutions:
1) In Evolution for Use Secure Connection choos Whenever possible
2) Fix your postfix mail server (in /etc/postfix/
restart postfix)
The thing is that your postfix is listening for TLS connections only on port 25,
and not on 465. If you choose 'Allways' in evolution, it will try to connect to
465 and fail. If you choose Whenever possible, it will connect to 25 and try to
use TLS.