[Zope] Help: Mailhost

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 00:20:36 +0100


Tim Hawes writes:
 > I keep getting this error with my mailhost. I have searched the maillist 
 > archive for solutions, have found people with similar problems but their 
 > solutions did not work for me. I am running Python 2.1.2 on Solaris 8 
 > box, I compiled myself. I am running Zope 2.4.3 (also self-compiled). 
 > There are no previous versions of Zope or python on the box, I have 
 > tried eliminating indentations in the mail header, and the mailhost is 
 > connecting to SMTP on another Sun box. I have tried starting sendmail in 
 > daemon mode on the local box, but get the same error. Please help.
 > 
 > Thank you.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Zope Error
 > 
 >                          Zope has encountered an error while publishing 
 > this resource.
 > 
 >                          Error Type: TypeError
 >                          Error Value: len() of unsized object
Are you sure, you message headers are not indended?

Message headers starting with whitespace are not recognized.
As a consequence, there are no "To:", "From:" headers.
This can cause the above mentioned errors (though they may have
different causes).


Dieter