cvs email notification problem

[Tony Bibbs]

I recently moved a CVS repository from one server to another.  The 
original system was a RH-based install and the new server is running 
Gentoo (though I doubt that matters much).  Anyway, anonymous CVS access 
is working just fine and developers can commit as expected, however, our 
mailing list email notifications aren't working.  When a commit occurs I 
get this:

Mailing address@hidden
Generating notification message...
Generating notification message... done.
Mailing address@hidden
Generating notification message...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/cvs/geeklog/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 323, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/cvs/geeklog/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 316, in main
    blast_mail(subject, people, specs[1:], contextlines, fromhost)
  File "/usr/cvs/geeklog/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 222, in blast_mail
    conn.connect(MAILHOST, MAILPORT)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/smtplib.py", line 288, in connect
    for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

At first I thought it might be because I didn't have python installed so 
I installed it and yet I am still having this problem.  Please advise...

--Tony