Evolution "can not send mail" message doesn't look HIG complient

[Adam Petaccia]

Binary package hint: evolution

My school doesn't allow outgoing SMTP mail, so I have my computer set to send mail to localhost, and whenever I SSH in from another machine, portforwarding takes over, and the mail gets out. No problem. But when I don't have an SSH tunnel open, evolution tells me that it can not send mail (as expected), but there is an ugly box around the message.

[Adam Petaccia (mighmos)]

That bounding box should go away as I've never seen that anywhere else in Gnome.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. What is not HIG compliant about the dialog?

[Adam Petaccia (mighmos)]

Observe how there is no bounding box around this error dialog that Nautilus creates when I attempt to unmount a volume that I don't have rights to. No other Gnome app I've seen creates the bounding box visible in the previous attachment.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded your bug upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424873

[Michael Harold (mike-harold)]

In my case the complete "Evolution Error" box reads "Mail from command failed: Requested action not taken: mail box name not allowed." Settings for pop and smtp have been double checked as being correct and as required by ISP.

[captainron042 (georgermayfield)]

I am getting the same error as Michael above. I've had the e-mail account set up for 4 months now, and I just started getting these errors a few weeks ago. I have to keep opening the messege and clicking send again over an over until it finally takes it.

[David (david-kahn)]

I can confirm that I am also getting the same error as captainron042, with an SSL connection to smtp.att.yahoo.com, and the problem only started recently.

I am wondering what port Evolution uses to send mail with an SSL connection. AT&T says to use port 465, and Evolution may be using port 25. AT&T may have stopped accepting SSL to Port 25 for some of their SMTP servers, and that is why mail outgoing mail sometimes fails. If so, it might be necessary for Evolution to allow setting the port, which wouldn't be a bad idea in any case.

David

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's already known upstream no need to reconfirm the bug, thanks you.

[David (david-kahn)]

Padro,

I didn't see any reference to my observation re. the port number, and
thought it would provide a clue to whoever is fixing the problem. Also,
I am having to press "Send/Receive" 5 to 10 times to get a message sent,
which makes this bug critical.

Thanks.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>
Reply-To: Bug 97607 <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 97607] Re: Evolution "can not send mail" message doesn't
look HIG complient
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:49:56 -0000

that's already known upstream no need to reconfirm the bug, thanks you.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

BTW Can you please stop attaching the "unamed" file to every report you're commenting to? thanks in advance.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

change status to Fix Released (see gnome-bugs)