#20 Connect fails for SMTP host in blast_mail

[Allen R. Marshall]

Perhaps due to some Linux mail system anomaly, but
certainly worth trapping, syncmail will not use the
localhost directive automatically if a null hostname is
passed to the SMTP connect method of smtplib e.g.

connect(MAILHOST, MAILPORT)....

So, in the syncmail script, one has to initialize
MAILHOST explicitly even though localhost is supposed
to be the default. The host nullness cannot be
addressed in smtplib, it is better addressed in the
syncmail script.

[Allen R. Marshall]

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