#13 Error when mail server is unreachable
When the SMTP server is unreacheable, `syncmail'
generates an error message like the one appended below.
I suggest adding another mail-sending mode that queues
the mail using /usr/sbin/sendmail (instead of
delivering it via SMTP).
Michael
Message: Traceback (most recent call last):
Message: File
"/home/hohmuth/local/var/cvs/CVSROOT/syncmail", line
481, in ?
Message: main()
Message: File
"/home/hohmuth/local/var/cvs/CVSROOT/syncmail", line
474, in main
Message: dolinks, specs[0], cvshost, repo)
Message: File
"/home/hohmuth/local/var/cvs/CVSROOT/syncmail", line
341, in blast_mail
Message: conn.connect(MAILHOST, MAILPORT)
Message: File
"/soft/stow/Python-2.2.2/lib/python2.2/smtplib.py",
line 290, in connect
Message: raise socket.error, msg
Message: socket.error: (79, 'A remote host refused an
attempted connect operation.')
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I believe the enhancement to add an MTA option has been
discussed for cvs-syncmail.py and should be fairly simply to
implement.
The Perl version of cvs-syncmail at http://cvs-syncmail-
pl.sourceforge.net/ already has this:
-m hostname
--mailhost hostname
The hostname of an available SMTP server. The default
is
the value of the environment variable MAILHOST, or the
environment
variable SMTP_SERVER, or 'localhost'.
--mta command
Command line to invoke an external mail transfer agent
(MTA), such as
sendmail. The program should expect a message with
SMTP headers and
an unescaped message body on stdin.
This option overrides any mailhost settings.
It would by nice if the Python implementation chose the same
parameter format, if possible.
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The whole connect thing should be in some sort of
try
finally
handler so exceptions that are likely to happen like this one
don't just make it puke.
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Some colleagues are experiencing an intermittent failure to
send out changes. Seems like they could do with the MTA
option too.