Asad Habib wrote at 2005-7-25 09:24 -0400:
>Well, nothing has changed in the mail server setup so I don't know why
>this error is being thrown.
I have been wrong. The message does not originate from your
mail server.
>Where can I access smtplib (I cannot locate
>this Python library in my Zope hierarchy)?
"smtplib" is part of the Python runtime library.
>Someone else also reported
>receiving this error as I discovered on Google but the issue was not
>resolved. Any help would be appreciated.
Looking at the "smtplib" source and your traceback reveals:
"smtplib.SMTP.__init__" is trying to determine the
local hostname. The code looks like this:
if local_hostname is not None:
self.local_hostname = local_hostname
else:
# RFC 2821 says we should use the fqdn in the EHLO/HELO verb, and
# if that can't be calculated, that we should use a domain literal
# instead (essentially an encoded IP address like [A.B.C.D]).
fqdn = socket.getfqdn()
if '.' in fqdn:
self.local_hostname = fqdn
else:
# We can't find an fqdn hostname, so use a domain literal
addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
# your exception is raised in the line above
self.local_hostname = '[%s]' % addr
This means that you local system is in a strange state.
Probably, it is unable to determine its hostname.
Try (in an interactive Python interpreter):
import socket
socket.gethostname()
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
--
Dieter
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