What does "Syntax error in parameters or arguments" mean with Evolution
 

I have a question about evolution...I keep getting this error message while trying to send email:

Error while performing operation:
MAIL FROM response error: Syntax error in parameters or arguments

I don't know what it is trying to tell me except that for some reason I can't connect to the SMTP server. This is just another in a long line of email problems on my Linux box...but I do want to figure it out.

If anyone can help....please do.

(Receiving and Reading my mail is fine)

Thanks

Hmmmmm...I had the same problem on my Slackware box...It turned out I was missing a dependancy somewhere. damned if i can remember what it was though. I did:
swaret --dep
and it took care of it. No swaret tool for Mandrake though. I'm not sure what tool you might be able to use.
Anybody got any suggestions?

Just in case it matters...I have no problem sending with Mozilla Mail I had 2 SMTP servers set up originally - one for each mail account...but I now only want to use one (from my ISP).

How about the mail settings in Linux...or the configuration files for Evolution...at this point I don't care if everything sets itself back to the defaults settings and everything is erased.

Matti

I an across this error now, and none of the solutions helped that I searched on the web, it turned out I had to add a line for my static ip on my subnet instead of just 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts

Before:

127.0.0.1 localhost myhostname
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

After:

127.0.0.1 localhost myhostname
192.168.0.221 myhostname
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Using "sudo ngrep -d any port 25" helped me determine this error.