[ale] odd error message

[Paul Cartwright]

On 12/15/2014 02:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> using Evolution for email.
>
> Tried to send a message to stevew at twistnscoot.com,
> but the message would not go out.
>
> Error message:
>
> "An error occurred during post-processing.  The reported error was
> 'Failed to apply outgoing filters.  RCPT TO <steve at twistnscoot> failed:
> Bad chars in command.'"
>
> Does anyone have a clue what might be going on here?
>
>
 you might try:
sending it from a web browser email..
is this a new contact? sent before & it worked?? try recreating the
contact as new.

I don't know about any log file, but there are debug settings you can
enable when starting Evolution from the command line. Find the full
description here <https://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Debugging>. In your
case, you most likely want to debug SMTP, which currently doesn't have
its own separate debug setting. Accodring to the linked manual, here's
how you could debug that:

|CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution >& evo_debug.log
|

This would first enable full debug in evolution (|CAMEL_DEBUG=all|), and
then start Evolution itself (|evolution|) -- while redirecting all the
debug output to a file (|>& evo_debug.log|). This way you've got all
information stored for later reference in the file |evo_debug.log|,
which will be created in the directory where you executed above
statement from. Alternatively, you can of course specify an absolute
location for the log:

|CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution >& ~/evo_debug.log
|

would store the log file directly in your home directory, for example.


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Paul Cartwright
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