[JAMES-759] sendmail.py use localhost to connect to local smtpserver. We should use 127.0.0.1

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.1
• Assignee: Norman Maurer
• Reporter: Norman Maurer
• Created: 12/Jan/07 11:59
• Updated: 21/Nov/07 08:31
• Resolved: 15/Jan/07 08:16

Description

At the moment we use:

server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')

This should be modified to:

server = smtplib.SMTP('127.0.0.1')

localhost is not resolvable on all systems!