[Evolution] alluring evolution topic #081379: "DATA command failed: Connection timed out."

[William Thomas Deans <deans UniversityOfSavanna com>]

Greetings,

Problem One:
        I am using Fedora Core 3 with Evolution 2.0.4.  I wanted to send
someone about 400K of text so I pasted it into their e-mail and
evolution crashed.  I tried twice more and it always crashed.  I ended
up attaching the text but see problem two below.

Problem Two:
        When I try to send an e-mail with an attachment I get the error box
"Evolution Error", STOPSIGN, "Error while performing operation.", "DATA
command failed: Connection timed out.", OK.  I understand that the
attachment is just encoded as text so the timeout could probably be
produced by sending a large e-mail without an attachment as well but I
cannot verify because of problem one above.  
        Even if this is not an Evolution error, even if it is an SMTP error of
some sort please advise on how to fix and if someone reading is an
Evolution developer please improve the quality of the error message
reported back by evolution so that people will have a better idea what
to do.  
        THIS DOES NOT MEAN HIDING INFORMATION AND PROVIDING A "USER FRIENDLY"
FROWN FACE WITH WAH-WAH-WAH SOUND.  This means providing more
information like a link to a Wiki page discussing each evolution error
that people might run into, providing a source as to where the error
might have originated, or something of that sort.  Hopefully then I
could solve this sort of thing myself... in the meantime I am happy for
any help.

Thank you for your time,
William Deans
deans universityofsavanna com
484 225 1731 <-- feel free to call me 24/7 to discuss