[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Zope sendmail tag inconsistent

[Arpad Kiss]

Hi,
Stephen Pitts <smpitts@midsouth.rr.com> posted a patch that may help you.
This patch replaces the socket-base code with smtplib calls.
The original MailHost didn't work with our Exchange 5.5 server, but after I
have applied the patch it works fine.
Arpad Kiss

----- Original Message -----
From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Jason Spisak <444@hiretechs.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:48 AM
Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Zope sendmail tag inconsistent


> Jason Spisak wrote:
> >
> > Zopists,
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed that the endmail tag will sometimes not send a
> > mail even though the dtml method sucessfully completes? It's about one
> > out of ten at high traffic times, and it happened on Zope.org too when I
> > tested it by emailing my password to myself a few times.
>
> I had a system where it failed (also silently) every first time after
reboot.
>
> I just moved to an external method that used /usr/sbin/sendmail as I did
> not have enough time to start debugging. Telnet to port 25 had just a very
> long (>30 sec) startup time, probably some DNS problem.
>
> AFAIK Zope does not (for some unknown reasons to me) use pythons SMTPlib
> but has rolled their own smtp interface.
>
> It has also been reported to fail with MS Exchange server, which someone
> fixed for himself by swithing to smtplib. IIRC the patches were also
posted
> to zope or zope-dev list.
>
> IMHO the right solution for Zope would be swithing to smtplib, and if
there
> are faults then fix them there (and maybe include fixed smtplib with Zope
> until fixes are included in mail python distro). There is no need to
invent
> to similar but slightly and differently broken wheels, at least in Open
> Source Software there aint.
>
> -----------------
> Hannu
>
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