[Mailman-Users] Mailman stopped delivering mail

[Mark Sapiro]

Eric Evans wrote:

>This is very interesting.  I took your suggestion and deleted the SMTPHOST 
>statement from the mm_cfg.py and Mailman immediately started working.  I 
>don't know why this would make a difference.  I know that we had this same 
>SMTPHOST statement in the mm_cfg.py file for quite a long time, years even, 
>and we never had a problem with it until recently.


You said you had

SMTPHOST = '<128.253.175.139>'


and I remarked

>>Which is probably using sendmail and not trying to connect to an SMTP
>>server at <128.253.175.139> (which BTW is if anything, a name and not
>>an IP address).


I.e '<128.253.175.139>' is not the same as '128.253.175.139'. The
latter is an IP address and the former is a name. Maybe something in
your DNS or other configuration changed so the name
'<128.253.175.139>' could no longer be resolved.

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