[Mailman-Users] mailloop exim lmtp

[Thomas Stein]

On Sunday 03 May 2015 07:50:08 Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 05/03/2015 06:25 AM, Thomas Stein wrote:
> > It seems mailman is unable to send mail. Sending mail as user mailman on
> > the commandline works. Strange.
> 
> These kinds of problems often result because mailman sends via SMTP to
> (by default) 'localhost' and there is a conflict because for example,
> the MTA is configured to accept mail from an IPv4 local host
> (127.0.0.1/n) and not from an IPv6 local host (::1), but 'localhost' is
> defined in /etc/hosts as the 'wrong' one.

Thanks for your answer. Changed localhost to 127.0.0.1 in mailman.cfg and now 
the error is gone. But the mail loop still is in action. It works even better 
now. :-) I guess i have to keep digging.

thanks again and cheers
t.