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Issues sending hotmail mail in evolution

Asked by Byron Woodland

Hi Guys,

This is a very recent error while trying to use Evolution to send hotmail E-mail. It's worth noting I have been using Evolution to do this with no problems up until today and no settings have changed. When I use send/receive I receive any incoming mail fine but it hangs on the sending mail or an error message "STARTTSL command failed :Unkown" is given.

Server type SMTP
Server smtp.live.com
Server requires auth checked
TLS Encryption
Auth type Plain
Address <email address hidden>

I have tried changing TLS TO SSL, Auth type to login with no success.
Any help greatly appreciated.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a;uname -a; dpkg -l | grep thunder; apt-cache policy thunderbird

Thanks

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Byron Woodland (byron-electric) said : 		#2

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
Linux byron-Satellite-L300 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:40:58 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
thunderbird:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.1.8+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
  Version table:
     3.1.8+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main i386 Packages
     3.1.4+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

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Byron Woodland (byron-electric) said : 		#3

This seems to be an intermittent problem as I rebooted system earlier to see if there was any change in behaviour, on trying to send the E-mail then it worked. Later on it had stopped working again so tried rebooting again, the E-mail would again send. Not sure what could be causing it to hang in this way as I have made no changes to system, the only difference seems to be a recent re-boot.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

There is a PPA for 3.2 for maverick:
https://launchpad.net/~malept/+archive/evolution-bp

There is a warning here which may be of interest though:
https://launchpad.net/~kklimonda/+archive/evo232

HTH

Either way, log a bug as it's inconsistency is weird and should be addressed.

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