[Mailman-Users] smtp-failure: 'Addres family was not recognized or address length wasinvalid'

[Mark Sapiro]

Ramea Vladislav wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to run mailman 2.1.9 with postfix 2.0.16 on Alpha TRU64 UNIX 5.1A.
> Unfortunately, when I tried to subscribe to my test conference, I got this errors to smtp-failure file:
> 
> ...
> Feb 12 16:57:08 2008 (250559) delivery to root[at]t2.pvt.cz failed with code -1: (5, 'Addres family was not recognized or address length was invalid.') Feb 12 16:57:08 2008 (250559) Low level smtp error: (5, 'Addres family was not recognized or address length was invalid.'), msgid: <mailman.292.1202831704.250529.mailman[at]t2.pvt.cz>
> Feb 12 16:57:08 2008 (250559) delivery to root[at]t2.pvt.cz failed with code -1: (5, 'Addres family was not recognized or address length was invalid.') Feb 12 17:00:02 2008 (250559) Low level smtp error: (5, 'Addres family was not recognized or address length was invalid.'), msgid: <mailman.293.1202832001.250529.mailman[at]t2.pvt.cz>
> ...


These errors are reported from the outgoing MTA to Mailman when Mailman 
tries to send a message (in this case to root[at]t2.pvt.cz).


> In Postfix maillog subscriptions looks like "send":
> 
> ...
> t2.pvt.cz# tail mail.log
> Feb 13 09:05:00 t2 postfix/pickup[256660]: 5411D4DE: uid=0 from=<root> Feb 13 09:05:00 t2 postfix/cleanup[256788]: 5411D4DE: message-id=<20080213080500.5411D4DE[at]t2.pvt.cz>
> Feb 13 09:05:00 t2 postfix/qmgr[250778]: 5411D4DE: from=<root[at]t2.pvt.cz>, size=346, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 13 09:05:00 t2 postfix/local[256800]: warning: dict_nis_init: NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled Feb 13 09:05:01 t2 postfix/local[256800]: 5411D4DE: to=<mailman[at]t2.pvt.cz>, orig_to=<mailman>, relay=local, delay=1, status=sent ("|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman") Feb 13 09:10:00 t2 postfix/pickup[256660]: B1DA54DE: uid=0 from=<root> Feb 13 09:10:00 t2 postfix/cleanup[256817]: B1DA54DE: message-id=<20080213081000.B1DA54DE[at]t2.pvt.cz>
> Feb 13 09:10:00 t2 postfix/qmgr[250778]: B1DA54DE: from=<root[at]t2.pvt.cz>, size=346, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 13 09:10:00 t2 postfix/local[256815]: warning: dict_nis_init: NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled Feb 13 09:10:01 t2 postfix/local[256815]: B1DA54DE: to=<mailman[at]t2.pvt.cz>, orig_to=<mailman>, relay=local, delay=1, status=sent ("|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman") ...


These log entries are the delivery of posts to Mailman and represent 
sucessfull deliveries despite the warnings.


> When I tried mailman with sendmail, result was the same (the same error messages in smtp-failure file). 


Which indicates that the outgoing MTA Mailman is talking to is neither 
sendmail nor Postfix.


> Sending and receiving e-mails to/from users on this server (t2.pvt.cz) works properly.
> 
> I tried to find in conferences error message "Addres family was not recognized or address length was invalid." with "mailman", but withouth usable result.

It is not a Mailman message. It comes from the MTA.

Have you redefined SMTPHOST and/or SMTPPORT in mm_cfg.py. If not, 
Mailman is trying to send via SMTP to 'localhost' port 25. What happens 
if you 'telnet localhost 25'? What MTA answers?

Also see 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.073.htp>.

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