[Zope] Help with mail error -- Error Value: (111, 'Connection refused')

[Dan Gaibel]

On Jul 9, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:01:29PM -0400, Dan Gaibel wrote:
>> After switching machines around due to a crash/recovery. I find that
>> I'm getting an error when I try to use methods which utilize the
>> Mailhost object. I get "Error Value: (111, 'Connection refused')"  I
>> don't understand what could have caused this change, except for
>> changing IP addresses. Any thoughts? I'm running on RH 7.3, Zope 
>> 2.5.1,
>> Python 2.1.3. Does Mailhost need to use sendmail?
>
> It needs to use the MTA on whatever IP / port you configure
> it to use.  By default this is port 25 on localhost.
> Go to your mailhost instance in the ZMI and check what
> you've got it set to, then check that the designated IP/port
> is actually available on the system that is running zope.
> Maybe since your IP changed, there are routing or firewall issues.
>
>

If I am using an external SMTP host, then there doesn't need to be any 
port available on my server, right? Just on the external machine? 
Changing IPs is the only possible cause I can think of for the problem, 
but I don't know what to look for.

Thanks for the fast response,

Dan

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