problem sendingout mail through Evolution

[Manuel Parrilla Sánchez]

El Tuesday 23 December 2008 12:11:16 Scott Berry escribió:
> Hello there,
>
> I am having a problem where when I go to send mail through my smtp server
> it gives me the following error:
> error error while performing operation host lookup smtp.northlc.com name
> or host not found.
>
> I checked my settings in Evolution and they are fine and I also checked my
> "/etc/hosts" file just to make sure there was nothing funny in it.  Any
> help would be appreciated.

Do you have guarddog as firewall?

Because I have a similar problem with Kmail. I think that guarddog settings 
are ok, but I can't send mail if I don't disable the firewall.