This is very interesting. I took your suggestion and deleted the SMTPHOST statement from the mm_cfg.py and Mailman immediately started working. I don't know why this would make a difference. I know that we had this same SMTPHOST statement in the mm_cfg.py file for quite a long time, years even, and we never had a problem with it until recently.
Thanks very much for the helpful tip. Eric > >>What if anything do you have in mm_cfg.py for SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT? If > >>nothing, Have you perhaps changed them in Defaults.py (Nothing in > >>Defaults.py should ever be changed)? > > > >The mm_cfg.py contains > >SMTPHOST = '<128.253.175.139>' > >which is the IP address of the server that is running Mailman. > >There is no SMTPPORT in the mm_cfg.py. > > >When you ran the test script and it delivered mail, did you specify >SMTPHOST = '<128.253.175.139>' in the test script, or did you leave it >as SMTPHOST = 'localhost'? If the latter, you could see if the test >script fails to deliver with SMTPHOST = '<128.253.175.139>', or you >could just remove SMTPHOST = '<128.253.175.139>' from mm_cfg.py and >let it default to 'localhost'. > > > >>3) you are not running the test script as the same user:group as > >>Mailman's OutgoingRunner. > > > >How can I check to see what user & group the Outgoing Runner is running > >as? I don't know exactly what executable program that corresponds to. > > >A command like > >ps -Awf | grep python > >should show all the runners and their names and pids. It will also show >the command used to invoke bin/mailmanctl. If this command does not >contain the -u/--run-as-user option, then you can safely assume all >runners are running as the 'mailman' user and group which would be the >normal case. > >I suspect the problem isn't that though. I suspect the script will fail >if you tell it SMTPHOST = '<128.253.175.139>', and Mailman will work >if you remove SMTPHOST = '<128.253.175.139>' from mm_cfg.py. > > > >No, Mailman doesn't send anything at all. Interestingly I can email myself > >easily enough from this host using the mail command > >Which is probably using sendmail and not trying to connect to an SMTP >server at <128.253.175.139> (which BTW is if anything, a name and not >an IP address). > >-- >Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, >San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
