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@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 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp