Systems Support <[email protected]> wrote: > >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.
The errors you report are from the Python smtplib module used by Mailman to send mail. See the FAQs at <http://wiki.list.org/x/-IA9> and <http://wiki.list.org/x/AoE9> for a little more info. If you believe the smtplib errors are not valid in this case, it is a Python smtplib issue and would need to be addressed there. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ 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
