Jonathan Gardner
2/23/2010 8:54:00 PM
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Victor Subervi <victorsubervi@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@13gems ~]$ su
> Password:
> [root@13gems beno]# man netstat
> [root@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@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.
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Jonathan Gardner
jgardner@jonathangardner.net