[Zope] mailhost question

[Tres Seaver]

"John Hile" <johnh@hilgraeve.com>

> I've been trying to use the how-to on "How to create a mail form" to send
> e-mails from our Zope-based site running on Linux. All goes as advertised
> except that I get an SMTP error 553: Domain Name Required back when I try it
> if I use localhost as the smtp host name. I sent mail to myself from the
> admin account on the hosting server and used the domain name in the from
> address as the Local Host setting in the MailHost object.
> I tried changing the SMTP host setting to our corporate server (after
> getting our admin to give permission to the zope server IP addr.) and the
> error message changes to SMTP eror 551: none

I would look _really_ hard at the To:, CC:, BCC:, and From: headers in your
message body -- the sendmail tag will barf in just this way if they have *any*
leading whitespace on their line.

Tres.
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