[Mailman-Users] Help: Uncaught runner exception: Use of the Sendmail.py

[Rob Cartier]

I corrected the issue by switching back to SMTPDirect and that solved the
problem. What was changed that caused the sendmail shell to start failing



Rob Cartier wrote:

> I have just recently upgrade to verison 2.1.5 and noticed that I am 
> getting the following errors
> Apr 21 16:34:55 2005 (2487) SHUNTING: 
> 1114115693.3566439+b7b30585c2d6766e459089d6ba7e512f0b93d599
> Apr 22 21:04:23 2005 (2487) Uncaught runner exception: Use of the 
> Sendmail.py delivery module is highly discouraged
> Apr 22 21:04:23 2005 (2487) Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop
>    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile
>    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 73, in 
> _dispose
>    self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py", line 71, in process
>    assert 0, 'Use of the Sendmail.py delivery module is highly 
> discouraged'
> AssertionError: Use of the Sendmail.py delivery module is highly 
> discouraged
>
>
>
> I need to run sendmail instead of smtp since my ISP provider requires 
> a login to
> connect to their smtp server.  Can anyone give me a clue what is going
> on here. It was working fine for over a year until the last upgrade :(
>
> Rob Cartier
>
>