The firewall was fine... the problem was that, for some reason, the hosts file did not have world read privileges!
Thanks for the assistance - your question led me to further telnet localhost 25 testing. I'd done it as root and it worked... I hadn't tried it as a non-root user (brain failure at midnight last night). --Will > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Knowles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:22 AM > To: Will Nordmeyer; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection > refused') errors > > At 11:54 PM -0400 3/26/07, Will Nordmeyer wrote: > > > Any other suggestions - I've got a client who needs to get an email out > to > > the list asap. > > Did you check your firewall settings, to make sure that connections > to port 25 on the localhost IP address would be accepted? > > -- > Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author > LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> > Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ 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
