smtplib problem with newly rebuilt Debian/lenny system

[BJ Swope]

try
 s=smtplib.SMTP('127.0.0.1')

instead.  I'm guessing that it's trying to bind to the IPv6 or some other
non IPv4 localhost instance.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:25 AM, cassiope <fpm at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> A hard drive failure forced me to rebuild my main system.  Just a few
> things haven't been restored; one of them is a python script which is
> used to email users of important events.
>
> In attempting to diagnose the cause, I tried directly executing the
> lines inside the python2.5 interpreter:
>
>        import  smtplib
>        s= smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
>
> but the second line causes  a traceback:
>
>        File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.5/smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
>            (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.5/smtplib.py", line 310, in connect
>            raise socket.error, msg
>        socket.error: (97, 'Address family not supported by protocol')
>
> This is with exim4 and python2.5 on a newly installed lenny system.
> No error messages appear in /var/log or /var/log/exim4 directories.
>
> Helpful clues or pointers to relevant documentation would be
> appreciated!
>
>        -f
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