[Mailman-Users] More help - please

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:17 PM -0400 2004-10-05, Layne Meier wrote:

>  Oct 05 16:02:24 2004 (275) delivery to lmeier at bellsouth.net failed with
>  code -1: (146, 'Connection refused')
>  Oct 05 16:02:35 2004 (275) Low level smtp error: (146, 'Connection refused'),
>  msgid: <mailman.0.1097003715.12230.mailman at onmyhonor.info>
>  Oct 05 16:02:35 2004 (275) delivery to lmeier at ajc.com failed with code -1:
>  (146, 'Connection refused')
>  Oct 05 16:02:35 2004 (323) Low level smtp error: (146, 'Connection refused'),
>  msgid: <mailman.0.1097003901.12269.mailman at onmyhonor.info>
>  Oct 05 16:02:35 2004 (323) delivery to lmeier at bellsouth.net failed with code
>  -1: (146, 'Connection refused')
>  Oct 05 16:03:39 2004 (372) Low level smtp error: (146, 'Connection refused'),
>  msgid: <mailman.0.1097003715.12230.mailman at onmyhonor.info>
>  Oct 05 16:03:39 2004 (372) delivery to lmeier at ajc.com failed with code -1:
>  (146, 'Connection refused')

	It looks to me like your Mailman program can't talk to your own 
MTA.  As to why this is happening, it's hard to say.

>  I can use SMTP with Postfix.  I've used Postfix for a very long time now.
>  Postfix local delivery is correctly set up, with no personality conflict.
>
>  When I telnet to host at port 25, I do get an SMTP login.

	It could be a reverse DNS problem, you could be connecting to the 
wrong IP address for the given name, it could be a firewall problem, 
any number of things could be wrong.  But this sounds to me like this 
is a problem with your MTA, and is most likely to be successfully 
resolved through resources specific to your MTA or your OS -- try the 
postfix-users mailing list, among others.

-- 
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