Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending emails via Mailman Issue
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
At 9:45 AM +1100 12/1/06, Saxvik, Ben wrote:
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.
The 127.0.0.1 address is IPv4 localhost, while ::1 is IPv6 localhost. So, technically both forms are correct, and which one is preferred will depend on which version of the IP stack is loaded on your machine, and which IP addresses are assigned to your machine.
You need to check with your network administrator before you make a change like this.
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