Hi Patrick,
I tired to telnet to port 25 on localhost and got a connection refused error.
I verified that sendmail was running and it was. I then proceeded to /etc/hosts file and found that the loopback address for the machine was incorrect. Instead of the address being 127.0.0.1 it was ::1. Once I change it back it was all sweet.
I did apply some patches to my system recently so one of them must have changed this address.
Again thanks for your assistance.
Regards,
Ben
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick Bogen [mailto:pdbogen@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 1 December 2006 1:50 AM To: Saxvik, Ben Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending emails via Mailman Issue
On 11/30/06, Saxvik, Ben <bsaxvik@sunrice.com.au> wrote:
Yes the MTA is running on the mailman machine.
No I have not changed the options SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT, they are still set to their default settings. SMTPHOST 'localhost' SMTPPORT '0'.
Can you double-check that your MTA is listening on port 25? Either using: netstat -lnp (and looking for port 25) or: telnet localhost 25 and see if the MTA responds (after a few seconds, probably.)
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- Patrick Bogen