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I would look closer at the MTA running on that system. That error doesn't seem to indicate a problem with the code as it does seem to be returning a valid result code. I'm using the latest smtplib here without issues. Hope this helps, -Russell > -----Original Message----- > From: MSU Network Administrators Group > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of westone > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:22 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] smtplib Python > > Have any of you Python programmers run into issues with the smtp library? > I've used it for years to generate emails from Python scripts, but recently > scripts that have never failed are throwing errors such as this: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/admin/hisdoc.py", line 90, in ? > s.connect() > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/smtplib.py", line 302, in connect > raise socket.error, msg > socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused') > > I've been searching the internet to see if this is a know issue, but so far > I've uncovered nothing. Can anyone shed any light on this? > > I run these scripts on a RHEL 4 linux box, with the python interpreter that > ships with RedHat (2.3) and I also downloaded and compiled the latest Python > from python.org (2.5), and the same error is thrown from either interpreter. > > > Eric Weston, Libraries >