MailMan Mailing List Problem

[akaize]

Our host had Cpanel 4.7 and after upgrading to 4.8 all our Mailing lists are giving problem, non of the existing lists sends mails and when we try to create a new list getting the following error:

Entry for aliases file:

## testmail_akaize.com mailing list
## created: 31-May-2002 akaize
testmail_akaize.com: &|/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper post testmail_akaize.com&
testmail_akaize.com-admin: &|/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner testmail_akaize.com&
testmail_akaize.com-request: &|/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd testmail_akaize.com&
testmail_akaize.com-owner: testmail_akaize.com-admin

Hit enter to continue with testmail_akaize.com owner notification...
Traceback (innermost last):
File &/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/newlist&, line 220, in ?
main()
File &/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/newlist&, line 213, in main
text)
File &/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Message.py&, line 211, in __init__
OutgoingMessage.__init__(self, text)
File &/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Message.py&, line 205, in __init__
self['Message-ID'] = Utils.make_msgid(idstring='Mailman')
File &/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py&, line 764, in make_msgid
idhost = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
socket.error: host not found


Need some support please?

 

[Reuben]

I just fixed this earlier today on one of my servers. You need to open up /etc/hosts and make sure there is an entry for your server as well as localhost.

 

[hostbet]

Can you post an example!