Just a quick update for anyone else who comes across this problem. I have not necessarily found the root cause but know what is happening and a work around. I thought perhaps the problem was DNS but that is properly configured and working. Anyway the details below.
I am running the SDK on Mac OS X 10.4.11. The specific error is an Exception with Exception Value "(1, unknown host)" on line 111. hostname, aliases, ipaddrs = gethostbyaddr(name). In looking at the VAR value for name my was "imac.local". In doing some testing I found that the '.local' is not liked by getbyhostaddr(). So to work around it, I manually remove(it appears OS X is automatically adding it) the .local by opening terminal and typing: sudo hostname -s imac This removed the .local and all mail functions work! It's somewhat a pain of a workaround because each time you restart the machine you have to change it but at least it's allowing me to continue developing. If anyone has a permanent fix or getting rid of the .local I'd appreciate hearing it. Thanks, Dave On Jan 9, 8:40 am, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Waldemar, > > Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. I should have included this in > my original post. I have configured as below(xxx = username/password): > > # Email server settings > EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.comcast.net' > EMAIL_PORT = 25 > EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'xxxxx' > EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xxxx' > EMAIL_USE_TLS = False > DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' > SERVER_EMAIL = '[email protected]' > > I've tried TLS = True and False both. > > Also from terminal (i'm using OS X 10.4.11) I can successfully "telnet > smtp.comcast.net 25" and manually send a message. Also when using > telnet I do not have to login so I've attempt to comment out the > EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD but it does not fix it. > > Also in looking at this more, and the output above shows the local var > 'name' that is being used by getbyhostaddr(name) is using has my local > machine hostname(imac.local). I've even gone into my host file to make > sure it has imac.local with my loopback address. > > Again, thanks for your help. This is driving me mad! > > Dave > > On Jan 9, 7:36 am, Waldemar Kornewald <[email protected]> wrote: > > > HiDave, > > > On Jan 8, 3:36 pm,Dave<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am having a problem that I hope has an easy answer although I've > > > looked high and low for an answer. I am using app engine with > > > appenginepatch, including Django 1.x. When I attempt to send an email > > > I get an 'herror" Exception with Exception Value "(1, uknown host)". > > > From the error output, line 111 is what seems to be raising the > > > Exception is below: > > > Did you configure the email server in your settings.py? See here for a > > reference:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#email-host > > There's also DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL and SERVER_EMAIL. > > > Bye, > > Waldemar Kornewald > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
