Hmm, It turns out that "hostname -s" does very different things on linux and solaris hosts. On linux, it harmlessly reports the hostname, without qualifying it. On solaris, it silently changes the host name to "-s". This seems to cause Mailman to start throwing away mail, with error messages like " Low level smtp error: (8, 'node name or service name not known'), msgid: xxxx"
Now, this difference in behaviour, between harmless and bizarre, is the stuff of the Unix-haters' handbook http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/preface.html However, It seems to me pretty disastrous that Mailman should throw away mail just because its own hostname changed. -- Ian Eiloart Postmaster, University of Sussex +44 (0) 1273 87-3148 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
