Thanks for your reply Mark. The problem was that the /etc/hosts file was set to 600 for the permissions. Resetting to 755 worked great. Now I've run into another problem, but I've found plenty of info on that.
Thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Douglas G. Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mailman Users ML" <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Qmail - Cannot connect via SMTP > Douglas G. Phillips wrote: > > >Just a followup on this that I forgot to add: Messages sent to the list are received by qmail and processed by mailman. They appear in the list archives, but they are not re-sent to the members of the mailing list. > > > That's consistent. The problem affects outgoing mail only. > > > > > The only error that I can find is in the mailman error logs (sample here): > > Jun 15 19:51:55 2006 (13082) Cannot connect to SMTP server localhost on port smtp > > > Mailman's OutgoingRunner is reporting that it called > SMTPDirect.process() to send the message and the SMTP connect called > in that module raised a socket.error exception. > > This is not quite the situation described at > <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.014.htp> , > but the debugging techniques described there and in the referenced > list posts should help. > > > > QMail is started via an /etc/init.d script that executes the qmail-start binary. I can telnet to the SMTP port fine from localhost, and it accepts mail just fine. > > > Are you telnetting to 'localhost' by name? As the 'mailman' user? > > -- > 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
