rss2email gives: Fatal error: could not connect to mail server

[Thufir]

Todd Zullinger <tmz <at> pobox.com> writes:

> 
> Thufir wrote:
> > By editing the rss2email config file, I can make it use my isp's
> > SMTP server?
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > I'm not at the pc now, but will try later.  I take it that you're a
> > user of rss2email?  Looks pretty neat :)
> 
> I've meant to check it out before but never got around to it until
> last night. ;)


[root at localhost .rss2email]# 
[root at localhost .rss2email]# 
[root at localhost .rss2email]# date
Sun Apr 15 08:56:28 BST 2007
[root at localhost .rss2email]# r2e run

Fatal error: could not connect to mail server "mail.vc.shawcable.net"
[root at localhost .rss2email]# date
Sun Apr 15 09:36:28 BST 2007
[root at localhost .rss2email]# 
[root at localhost .rss2email]# ll
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380 Apr 15 08:51 config.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418 Apr 15 08:53 config.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Apr 15 08:59 feeds.dat
[root at localhost .rss2email]# cat config.py
# Find some common used config options below; all can be found all and 
# descriptions in the section titled "### Vaguely Customizable Options ###"
# near the top of /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py

DEFAULT_FROM="bozo at dev.null.invalid"
HTML_MAIL=1
SMTP_SEND=1
SMTP_SERVER=""
AUTHREQUIRED=0
SMTP_USER="username"
SMTP_PASS="password"
DATE_HEADER=0
# PROXY=""
[root at localhost .rss2email]# [root at localhost .rss2email]# date
Sun Apr 15 09:37:02 BST 2007
[root at localhost .rss2email]# 
[root at localhost .rss2email]# ping mail.vc.shawcable.net
PING mail.vc.shawcable.net (24.71.223.37) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.9) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host
Unreachable
>From rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.9) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host
Unreachable
>From rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.9) icmp_seq=6 Destination Host
Unreachable
>From rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.9) icmp_seq=8 Destination Host
Unreachable

--- mail.vc.shawcable.net ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 7000ms

[root at localhost .rss2email]# 



so....not a suprising result.


-Thufir