Hi!
Intercodes wrote:
> Ewald,
>
> First off, thanks for stopping by.
>
> >The connection via the smtplib.SMTP() could be established.
>
>
> I dont think so. I think it fails before the login().
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>> ex= smtplib.SMTP('smtp.mail.yahoo.com <http://smtp.mail.yahoo.com>')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 241, in __init__
> (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 289, in connect
> for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
> socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>
> ------------------------------------------------
Here you get a different Traceback than in the original post.
After digging in smtplib.py here ( Python 2.3.3 )
the call should be socket.getaddrinfo( "smtp.mail.yahoo.com", 25, 0,
socket.SOCK_STREAM );
which succeeds here at my installation.
How do you resolve your hostnames ( /etc/nsswitch.conf gives the order of
hostname resolution )
> >>> socket.gethostname()
> 'linux'
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>>>> socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>>>>
> --------------------------------------------------
This should resolve your own local hostname!
The socket.gethostbyname() is a call into a shared object of Python and this
would use
( So think I ) the standard-Libraries for resolution.
Is "linux" a valid hostname?
Does "ping linux" succeed.
I still think, that this a name resolution error on your host.
HTH Ewald
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