[Cvs-syncmail] [ cvs-syncmail-Bugs-760429 ] Error when mail server is unreachable

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Bugs item #760429, was opened at 2003-06-25 11:56
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Michael Hohmuth (rotofoil)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Error when mail server is unreachable

Initial Comment:
When the SMTP server is unreacheable, `syncmail&#039;
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, &#039;A remote host refused an
attempted connect operation.&#039;)

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Comment By: Glyn Normington (glyn_normington)
Date: 2004-03-15 15:19

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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.

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Comment By: Allen R. Marshall (armarshall)
Date: 2004-01-09 03:37

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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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Comment By: Klaus Johannes Rusch (krusch)
Date: 2003-06-27 18:48

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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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