[Mailman-Users] SUMMARY: 2.0beta6 smtp-failure: host not found: ignored: every minute

[F. Winter]

That was the solution!

In $prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py is a line
SMTPHOST = 'localhost'

This caused in my configuration an "host not found" error.
Changing this value to my real DNS hostname, (pasted into 
mm_cfg.py) solved the Problem.

Thanks to Andre, Dan, Nigel and Chris Hedemark who gave the
right spot.

Hope this will help someone searching the archives!

Bye.


--
 Frank Winter          Tel.: +(49)-40-42838-2404
 PHYSnet RZ            Email: winter at PHYSnet.uni-hamburg.de
 Uni Hamburg           
 Jungiusstr. 9
 D-20355 Hamburg       


On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> Oh boy do I feel dumb.  In my defense, my IQ is being sapped by cold
> medicine.
> 
> The new Defaults.py hadn't been changed.  I didn't think it would be
> overwritten in an upgrade.  But it was.  It was trying to send mail to
> 'localhost' which for some reason wasn't defined.  Well I fixed that in
> '/etc/hosts', and a little at a time mail is starting to trickle in that had
> been queued up.
> 
> There are some other nagging problems but sending mail has been fixed.
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hedemark [mailto:hedemark at bops.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:11 AM
> To: 'mailman-users at python.org'
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures (fwd)
> 
> 
> OK I had a nearly fully functioning list server with 2.0beta2.  The upgrade
> to 2.0beta6 was prompted by a problem with archiving (it wasn't archiving
> messages).  It was actually sending messages just fine.
> 
> With 2.0beta6 we have archiving, but messages aren't moving.  I've tried
> sending mail from this box using "pine" and "mail" and it works fine.
> 
> I'm going to have a bunch of relevant logs posted shortly.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: F. Winter [mailto:winter at PHYSnet.uni-hamburg.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:09 AM
> To: Chris Hedemark
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures (fwd)
> 
> 
> Hi Chris!
> 
> > The weird thing is, I didn't have this problem with 2.0beta2.  It started
> > when I got the 2.0beta6 installed.
> > 
> 
> Do you mean that you have exactly the same problem that no list works
> with 2.0beta6 ? I tried 1.1stable although. The same result.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: F. Winter [mailto:winter at PHYSnet.uni-hamburg.de]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:46 AM
> > To: mailman-users at python.org
> > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures (fwd)
> > 
> > 
> > Hi guys!
> > 
> > The problem Dan has  sounds exactly like my one:
> > 
> > The first "test" mailing list does not send the notification
> > email either. I have the same logs in smtp, smtp-failure and
> > post every minute.
> > 
> > I run Tru64 UNIX 4.0f. Python 1.5.2 and Mailman 2.0beta6
> > and exim 3.16
> > 
> > Yes, I installed the crontab under the user mailman. And I
> > followed the HOWTO "exim and mailman" found at www.exim.org.
> > 
> > I tried with installing the aliases into system-alias and
> > without it. Nothing changed. The first notificaten email
> > does not arrive. There are no entries in exim's log files.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > 
> > --
> >  Frank Winter          Tel.: +(49)-40-42838-2404
> >  PHYSnet RZ            Email: winter at PHYSnet.uni-hamburg.de
> >  Uni Hamburg           
> >  Jungiusstr. 9
> >  D-20355 Hamburg       
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > 
> > Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:16:39 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Dan Mick <Dan.Mick at West.Sun.COM>
> > To: mailman-users at python.org, hedemark at bops.com
> > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures
> > 
> > What is your MTA, and what do its logs say?
> > 
> > > OK I did the upgrade to 2.0beta6 and all hell has broken loose.
> Followed
> > > INSTALL and UPGRADE but something is still wrong.
> > > 
> > > My smtp-failures log is full of stuff like this:
> > > 
> > > Sep 26 13:05:02 2000 (1549) -1 hedemark at bops.com (ignore)
> > > 
> > > There is one log entry for every mailing list subscriber, and this gets
> > > updated every minute.  Looks like lots of stuff is backed up in the
> queue
> > > and not going out.  Have tried recompiling Mailman to no avail.  This is
> > on
> > > a Red Hat 6.2 system.
> > > 
> > > FWIW, it is doing a decent job of archiving my pile of test messages.
> > > Though nobody is actually getting the test messages.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for being patient with me guys.
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> > 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
>