[Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

[Matt England]

For those who may have been tracking this saga:

My Mailman-SMTP problems stemmed from my non-root system accounts having no 
ability to resolve localhost to my machines IP address...because there was 
no non-root read permission set for /etc/hosts.  (My 'telnet localhost 25' 
tests were all previously run from the root account, and as soon as I 
finally ran it from a non-root account, then the problem root cause finally 
reared its simple, little, ugly head.)

Yes, this is a terribly disgusting thing to learn that I spent so much 
blood, sweat, and tears on such a silly system flaw.

-Matt


At 5/16/2005 06:57 PM, Matt England wrote:
>At 5/16/2005 09:45 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>Matt England wrote:
>>
>> >It seems there's some problem with my SMTP server...I'm just trying to
>> >figure out what it is or how I can reproduce it other then keeping to point
>> >Mailman or phpBB forums at it (both fail for SMTP localhost connections).
>>
>>The symptoms you have described do not really arise at the level of
>>Mailman code, even in SMTPDirect.py. If this is not strictly a qmail
>>issue, the problems probably occur in the interface between the Python
>>library and qmail, not in Mailman. Did you update or change Python
>>coincident with the start of these troubles?
>
>Not that I'm aware of.
>
>Note that phpBB is experiencing similar problems, and it is php based and 
>not python based.
>
>This further points the finger at qmail...or at least both php-to-qmail 
>and python-to-qmail.
>
>Care to offer any suggestions about how I can isolate these php-to-qmail 
>and python-to-qmail problems...with like test scripts?  How do I write it, 
>and/or do simple, stand-alone scripts already exist?  Can someone write me one?
>
>I realize I'm asking a lot from a Mailman group to help solve an apparent 
>qmail problem...and for what it's worth, I just lobbed as massive email 
>over to the official qmail discussion list (qmail at list.cr.yp.to), too (I 
>had previously been posting to forum.qmailrocks.org).
>
>I'm also in discussion with Brad K. about a switch to postfix.
>
>(Note that another post shows how a 'telnet lists.biz2tek.com 25' outbound 
>email works ok.)
>
>>In another post, you mentioned using Sendmail.py. I hope you have read
>>and carefully considered all the comments in that module.
>
>Yes, I did.  Sendmail.py is only a temporary solution, possibly only for 
>debugging purposes so that I could prove that Mailman (and outbound email 
>in general) was working.
>
>-Matt