Hello Jon, Thank you for your reply!
On Thursday 26 February 2004 15:42, you wrote: > What in particular are your settings in > ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (or Defaults.py) for the > "Delivery Defaults": > DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' > MTA = 'Manual' > SMTPHOST = 'localhost' > SMTPPORT = 0 # default from smtplib > SENDMAIL_CMD = '/usr/lib/sendmail' I finally found it, and while the problem was not in the above section of Defaults.py, your mail made me read that file one more time top to bottom, and it finally dawned on me what the problem was: SMTPHOST was set to 'localhost', but localhost was not defined in /etc/hosts (don't ask me why, I did not setup this system, I am just responsible for it now; I have to admit that the idea that it might not be defined never even crossed my mind prior to your mail...); hence, the smtp error. Have now added 127.0.0.1 localhost entry to /etc/hosts, now Mailman seems to be working perfectly! Thanks again! Best wishes Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org