#19 A common question!~~

[tao.lou]

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[ronger@dniserver wwwroot]$ Traceback (most recent
call last):
File "/usr/local/dnicvs/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 322, in ?
main()
File "/usr/local/dnicvs/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 315, in
main
blast_mail(subject, people, specs[1:], contextlines,
fromhost)
File "/usr/local/dnicvs/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 221, in
blast_mail
conn.connect(MAILHOST, MAILPORT)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/smtplib.py", line 276, in connect
for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0,
socket.SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
resolution')

[Allen R. Marshall]

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THIS IS EASY TO FIX. THE STATEMENT IN THE HEADER THAT
LOCALHOST WILL BE USED IF NO MAILHOST IS PASSED IS
JUST WRONG. EXPLICITLY SET MAILHOST.

Also, I think there is a variant of connect that just takes a
hostname and no port. That might work better..