[Mailman-Users] My second request for help

[Dan Mick]

It looks to me like the mail sent by Mailman would have to end up getting
its HELO command from smtplib.py's _get_fqdn_hostname(); that uses 
gethostname() and then gethostbyaddr() to come up with a hostname.
Perhaps something is wrong with your machine configuration such
that gethostname/gethostbyaddr fail to come up with a fqdn.

> > I was wondering the same thing more or less. Would Mailman drop the domain
> > if the "Preferred Domain for this list" is blank? The HELO command is
> > supposed to identify the connecting machine as I recall. The connecting
> > machine is the SMTP portion of the MTA, right? Presumably, that would
> > mean that Sendmail doesn't know it's own name. Does that come from
> > /etc/HOSTNAME on RedHat?
> >
> > Rob Martin
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Dan Mick wrote:
> >
> > > Well, let's see: the error message says:
> > >
> > > All recipients refused: (501, '5.0.0 helo requires domain address')
> > >
> > > That seems to me to point directly to "no domain address" in the
> > > HELO command.  Is it possible you haven't set your 'originating domain',
> > > or that some admin or subscriber address doesn't have a domain part,
> > > or something like that?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Version information
> > > >   mailman: 2.0
> > > >   Sendmail: 8.11.1/8.11.1
> > > >   Procmail: v3.13.1
> > > >   webserver:  Apache/1.3.12
> > > >
> > > > I more than likely missed a simple step somewhere in the installation
> > > > process however I am gettng the following errors in the logs/smtp.
> > > >
> > > > Jan 08 14:49:14 2001 (22489) All recipients refused: (501, '5.0.0 helo
> > > > requires domain address')
> > > > Jan 08 14:49:14 2001 (22489) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.032
> seconds
> > > > Jan 08 15:28:02 2001 (26219) All recipients refused: (501, '5.0.0 helo
> > > > requires domain address')
> > > > Jan 08 15:28:02 2001 (26219) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.033
> seconds
> > > > Jan 08 16:07:59 2001 (28077) All recipients refused: (501, '5.0.0 helo
> > > > requires domain address')
> > > > Jan 08 16:07:59 2001 (28077) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.094
> seconds
> > > > Jan 08 16:18:15 2001 (28675) All recipients refused: (501, '5.0.0 helo
> > > > requires domain address')
> > > > Jan 08 16:18:15 2001 (28675) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.153
> seconds
> > > >
> > > > This is after I run the bin/newlist command. The list owner does not
> get the
> > > > confirmation email and in the sendmail logs the following error is
> recorded
> > > > each time
> > > >
> > > > Jan  8 HH:MM:SS hostname sendmail[PID]: NOQUEUE: IDENT:ident@
> [ipaddress]
> > > > did not issue MAIL/EXPN/V
> > > > RFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions or questions on a resolution to this problem?
> > > >
> > > >
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