Good call! I run Postfix on this system, and a couple tweaks to the main.cf
file fixed the problem. Thanks very much!
Eric
> From: "Russell J. Lahti" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Russell J. Lahti" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:31:16 -0400
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] smtplib Python
>
> 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
>>
>
