AskErrol

python 2.3.3; smtplib stopped working when sending to localhost. This broke my mailman installation for a day or two.

It turned out the hostname of my server mx.askerrol.org, was being set to mx only and could not be resolved; so SMTPlib failed.

I had to modify /etc/nodename, even though /etc/hostname.DEVICE and /etc/hosts had the FQDN.

Once this was done, everything started working properly. Thanks go to the folks on the freenode.net #python channel for the assistance in debugging this.
Message length is 60

connect: (‘127.0.0.1′, 25)

connect:(‘127.0.0.1′, 25)

reply: ‘220 mx.askerrol.org ESMTP Postfix\r\n’

reply: retcode (220);

Msg: mx.askerrol.org ESMTP Postfix

connect: mx.askerrol.org ESMTP Postfix

Traceback(most recent call last): File “test1.py”, line 24, in ? server = smtplib.SMTP(‘127.0.0.1′)

File“/usr/local/lib/python2.3/smtplib.py”, line 254, in __init__ addr =socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) socket.gaierror: (1, ‘address family not supported’)

It is over   After 2 years of planning, the event has come and gone.

Wow! What a blast it was. Friday football. Saturday picnic , school tour, and a dance saturday night.

It is amazing how much you can forget in 20 years! We had over 60 alumni return for the reunion, and many brought guests. The comments have been positive, and that means a lot to me (being part of the reunion committee). It was a lot of work to pull it off, especially when it seems everything comes together at the end.  It would be less stressful, to get more response earlier in the process.

We had a number of folks volunteer to help for the next one, so maybe this will make things easier. Time will tell!

Thanks to all that helped and came the reunion!

I’ve created a picasa web folder album, you can see a link to it at the following URL:

http://askerrol.org/pics.html

I also have photos, online at photo.askerrol.org using Gallery. Any comments on free web album sites?

I’m going to and figure out how to add this to my blog (on the site)

But you may be able to catch me online.