[Mailman-Users] mailman does not send E-mails

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:28, Thorsten Brabetz wrote:
> 	 	 
> Hello Jon, 
> 
> Thank you for your reply!
> 
> On Thursday 26 February 2004 15:42, you wrote:
> > What in particular are your settings in
> > ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (or Defaults.py) for the
> > "Delivery Defaults":
> >   DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect'
> >   MTA = 'Manual'
> >   SMTPHOST = 'localhost'
> >   SMTPPORT = 0               # default from smtplib
> >   SENDMAIL_CMD = '/usr/lib/sendmail'
> 
> I finally found it, and while the problem was not in the 
> above section of Defaults.py, your mail made me read that 
> file one more time top to bottom, and it finally dawned on 
> me what the problem was: 
> 
> SMTPHOST was set to 'localhost', but localhost was not 
> defined in /etc/hosts (don't ask me why, I did not setup 
> this system, I am just responsible for it now; I have to 
> admit that the idea that it might not be defined never even 
> crossed my mind prior to your mail...); hence, the smtp 
> error. Have now added
> 
> 127.0.0.1 	localhost
> 
> entry to /etc/hosts, now Mailman seems to be working 
> perfectly!
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Best wishes
> 	 
> 	 
> Thorsten
> 	 
Glad to be of help.

I'll make sure that item is covered FAQ 3.14. 
Take care - Jon Carnes