I know it's been awhile for a commit to the cow repo, but I have a beta 
release for cow on debian sid and I wanted to commit the debian directory.

$ cvs add debian
<snip>
Mailing netrek-vanilla-cvs at lists.sourceforge.net...
Generating notification message...
Generating notification message... done.
Directory /cvsroot/netrek/client/cow/debian added to the repository
Mailing netrek-vanilla-cvs at lists.sourceforge.net...
Generating notification message...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/cvsroot/netrek/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 322, in ?
    main()
  File "/cvsroot/netrek/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 315, in main
    blast_mail(subject, people, specs[1:], contextlines, fromhost)
  File "/cvsroot/netrek/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 221, 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')

Not sure if that is a sourceforge problem or a mis-config of syncmail on out 
part.

Looking into it now.

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