[Reportbug-maint] Bug#586680: mta: please support pure SMTP+TLS as well as SMTP+STARTTLS

[Sandro Tosi]

severity 586680 wishlist
thanks

Hello Ximin,
This is a feature request, so set severity to the correct value.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 18:03, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at gmx.com> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.12.3
> Severity: normal
>
> At the moment, reportbug only supports secure mail transfers through smtplib's
> STARTTLS:
>
> submit.py:372
>                if smtptls:
>                    conn.starttls()
>
> Some SMTP servers, such as mail.gmx.com:465, use SMTP wrapped in a standard
> TLS transport. Please add support for this.

We'll see what we can do, but consider this is not one of our
priorities, so feel free to try to work on a patch and submit one:
we'll surely evaluate it for inclusion.

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