SMTPServerDisconnected

Tue Feb 23 15:53:51 EST 2010

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi;
> I think the last main thing I have to do on my server is get a running email
> server up. Now that I've nuked sendmail and given up on postfix, I'm back to
> trying to get qmail up and running again. Of course, there are no active
> discussion lists for *any* email server, so I have to turn here for help.
> While running a script that worked perfectly well on another server to send
> an email, I get the following error:
> A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function
> calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
> A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function
> calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
>  /var/www/html/globalsolutionsgroup.vi/simplemail/mail2.py
>    52 </head>
>    53 <body>'''
>    54 my_mail()
>    55 print '''
>    56 </body>
> my_mail = <function my_mail>
>  /var/www/html/globalsolutionsgroup.vi/simplemail/mail2.py in my_mail()
>    33       to_address = ourEmail1,
>    34       subject = subject,
>    35       message = message
>    36   ).send()
>    37   Email(
> message = 'Name: beno -\nMessage: test'
>  /var/www/html/globalsolutionsgroup.vi/simplemail/simplemail.py in
> send(self=<simplemail.Email object>)
>   344         smtp = smtplib.SMTP()
>   345         if self.smtp_server:
>   346             smtp.connect(self.smtp_server)
>   347         else:
>   348             smtp.connect()
> smtp = <smtplib.SMTP instance>, smtp.connect = <bound method SMTP.connect of
> <smtplib.SMTP instance>>, self = <simplemail.Email object>, self.smtp_server
> = 'localhost'
>  /usr/lib64/python2.4/smtplib.py in connect(self=<smtplib.SMTP instance>,
> host='localhost', port=25)
>   305         if not self.sock:
>   306             raise socket.error, msg
>   307         (code, msg) = self.getreply()
>   308         if self.debuglevel > 0: print>>stderr, "connect:", msg
>   309         return (code, msg)
> code undefined, msg = 'getaddrinfo returns an empty list', self =
> <smtplib.SMTP instance>, self.getreply = <bound method SMTP.getreply of
> <smtplib.SMTP instance>>
>  /usr/lib64/python2.4/smtplib.py in getreply(self=<smtplib.SMTP instance>)
>   349             if line == '':
>   350                 self.close()
>   351                 raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly
> closed")
>   352             if self.debuglevel > 0: print>>stderr, 'reply:',
> repr(line)
>   353             resp.append(line[4:].strip())
> global SMTPServerDisconnected = <class smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected>
> SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
>       args = ('Connection unexpectedly closed',)
> I cannot find the qmail logs. I assumed they'd be in either
> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
> or
> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
> but I find no logs there.
>
> [SSH] Protocol Version 2 (OpenSSH_4.3)
> [SSH] Cipher: aes128-cbc
> Logged in (password)
> Last login: Tue Feb 23 05:24:00 2010 from 66.248.168.67
> [beno at 13gems ~]$ su
> Password:
> [root at 13gems beno]# man netstat
> [root at 13gems beno]# netstat
> Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address
> State
> getnameinfo failed
> tcp        0    268 nrelectric.com:ssh          [UNKNOWN]:61912
> ESTABLISHED
> Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
> Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node Path
> unix  7      [ ]         DGRAM                    10842  /dev/log
> unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    10370
>  @/org/kernel/udev/udevd
> unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    6077731
> unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6077679
> unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6077678
> unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    6077675
> unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    11556
> unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    11511
> unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    10990
> [root at 13gems beno]#
>
> How do I trouble-shoot this?

Try connecting to the port that is supposed to accept mail messages
via telnet and issue a few SMTP commands.

-- 
Jonathan Gardner
jgardner at jonathangardner.net