Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote:

Here's a couple lines from /var/log/mailman/error:

Oct 21 12:32:42 2006 (15692) Cannot connect to SMTP server localhost on port smtp Oct 21 12:37:23 2006 (17533) Cannot connect to SMTP server 166.70.243.110 on port smtp

So presumably you changed SMTPHOST in mm_cfg.py to produce the second entry?

I am reading the faq entry at this link: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp

9. SMTPHOST

Mailman would accept messages but they wouldn't go anywhere. logs/smtp would just show "All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection refused')". My mailserver is configured to listen only on its external IP address, no localhost or anything like that. I had to add to ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py: SMTPHOST = '<ip of my mailserver>' After that Mailman started working perfectly. Here's my stupid question....I don't know what the "ip of my mailserver" would be...my box running debian 3.1...has address 166.70.243.110 routed to it. Would this the the correct 'ip of my mailserver'?

Probably, assuming it isn't behind a NAT, but if you can successfully 'telnet localhost 25' and get a '220' response from Exim, the above is not the issue.

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