smtplib problem with newly rebuilt Debian/lenny system

[cassiope]

On Mar 27, 11:29 am, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
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> In article <d37a66e9-55c2-437c-b613-009a62f71... at d2g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
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> cassiope  <f... at u.washington.edu> wrote:
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> >In attempting to diagnose the cause, I tried directly executing the
> >lines inside the python2.5 interpreter:
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> >        import  smtplib
> >        s= smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
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> >but the second line causes  a traceback:
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> >        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')
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> >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.
>
> What happens if you
> telnet localhost 25
>
> This looks like a network setup issue.
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Yes, that's what it was.  Exim4 setup was bungled, so wasn't accepting
localhost
connections.  Fixing that resolved the "python" error.