[Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 63, Issue 53

[Dave Filchak]

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>> OK .. ran both tests as mailman. First one was fine. Second one, while 
>> it shown no errors initially, I only received the email that was sent as 
>> a rcpt (secondary email address). The To: email address did not get 
>> delivered. The smtp-failure logs do not show a specific error for that 
>> email transaction but it still shows a ton of the same errors, i.e.:
>>
>> May 29 16:21:04 2009 (6489) Low level smtp error: (-2, 'Name or service 
>> not known'), msgid: <mailman.1.1243617046.6486.someone at domain.net>
>> May 29 16:21:04 2009 (6489) delivery to someone at domain.org failed with 
>> code -1: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>>
>> Both /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts are world readable. I am truly stumped.
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> That example won't deliver to any addresses in the message headers. 
> Also, it won't log any errors. Error will be written to Python's
> stderr (normally the terminal). It sends to the addresses in the rcpts
> list as those are the only addresses communicated via SMTP. I.e., the
> envelope is sent to the rcpts regardless of what the message inside
> the envelope says.
>
> OK. I'm stumped too. Check the definitions of SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT in
> Defaults.py and possible overrides in mm_cfg.py to make sure they are
> 'localhost' and 0 respectively.
>   
OK .. well maybe something here. In Defaults.py SMTPHOST is set to 
'localhost' In mm_cfg.py, it is set to the actual public IP of the server.
> Also, another thing that occurred to me at one point which I don't
> think makes any difference and which looked OK in your prior post of
> 'ps' output, but make sure that a sendmail process didn't start on
> it's own after the power failure.
>
> chkconfig --list sendmail
>
> or however you set these things on your system should show sendmail is
> off at all run levels. sendmail should only be run by MailScanner.
>   
sendmail is turned off at all levels.
> If your python is 2.4.x or later, you can use the technique described
> in the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/-IA9> to obtain debugging info
> from Python's smtplib. The extra information will be written to
> Mailman's error log.
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No such luck. This is an older system running the latest available for 
this system (2.3.4)

I am going to change mm_cfg.py to match Defaults.py or I guess I could 
just comment it out?

Dave


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