[Reportbug-maint] Bug#493329: closed by Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> (Re: Bug#493329: reportbug: Display problems with french accents on SMTP error.)

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Charles,

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 14:06, Charles Plessy<plessy at debian.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:51:06 +0200
>> From: Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 21:21, Carl Chenet<chaica at ohmytux.com> wrote:
>> > This bug report has been tagged unreproducible/moreinfo for two months. Maybe we could close ?
>>
>> Agreed, closing.
>
> Hi Sandro and Carl,
>
> sorry for not answering your previous pings: I was too puzzled on how to
> reproduce the SMTP error that led to an ouptout with wrong encoding.

eheh no problem :)

>
> Anyway, I just tried to unplug the computer before sending, and got the
> following error instead (-2, 'Nom ou service inconnu'). Unfortunately it does
> not contain characters that could reveal encoding problems. I downloaded the
> sources of reportbug and wanted to modify the string to add accents, and then
> realised that it does not belong to reportbug's sources.
>
> If you know which package could send the SMTP errors, I can have a look and
> report the bug to this package if needed. In any case, the reportbug is better
> closed.

The error message is generated at:

$ grep 'SMTP send failure' * -rn
reportbug/submit.py:398:                ewrite('SMTP send failure: %s\n', x)

code path entered if socket.error or smtplib.SMTPException exception is thrown.

so the text message comes from Python itself.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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