[Mailman-Users] Mailman stopped delivering mail

[Eric Evans]

I tried running this python script, and interestingly enough it does cause 
a message to be delivered correctly.  So why does this script work but I 
get "host/servname not known" errors when I try to send a message to my 
list through Mailman?  Very mysterious.

Eric

>See the post at
><http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-May/044742.html>.
>
>This gives a more elaborate script that actually sends mail in exactly
>the same way as Mailman's SMTPDirect module. If you run this script as
>the mailman user, it should fail in the same way that mailman fails.
>The exact failure should help diagnose the error. If you find it fails
>in a way different from what's in the FAQ, please report the details
>and the solution :-) so we can update the FAQ.
>
>Note that it is important to do these tests as the mailman user. One
>person kept trying them as root and they never failed. It turned out
>that root could read /etc/hosts and mailman couldn't.
>
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