[Mailman-Users] postfix virtual domain problem

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Thu Feb 22 19:19:40 CET 2007


Patrick Bogen wrote:

>On 2/21/07, Rich <rich at edj.net> wrote:

>> In /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure I see:
>>
>> delivery to user at host failed with code -1:(111, Connection Refused)
>
>This seems to indicate that mailman can't talk to the SMTP server that
>it's supposed to used to send mail. What is the setting of
>DELIVERY_MODULE? ('SMTPDirect' on my system). How about SMTPHOST? If
>you haven't overwritten these in mm_cfg.py, the defaults of SMTPDirect
>and '0' should be set, which means to use the default from Smtplib.
>
>I believe this is going to be 'localhost'; if this isn't right for
>your system, you need to set these things in mm_cfg.py.


As Patrick indicates, The default for the outgoing SMTP server is port
25 on 'localhost' which is refusing your connection. Is your outgoing
MTA listening on localhost (127.0.0.1) port 25?

Can you successfully 'telnet localhost 25' and get a response from your
MTA?

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