zope.sendmail

SMTPRecipientsRefused not handled in zope.sendmail

Bug #1003288 reported by Andrey Lebedev on 2012-05-23

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	zope.sendmail	Fix Released	Undecided	Tres Seaver	zope.sendmail 3.7.5
	zope.sendmail (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Sometimes, during mail delivery in QueueProcessorThread, SMTP server rejects mail because of bad recipient. For example, it can happen if recipient looks like local one (without @ in email), so SMTP server will not put incoming email to its queue and will reject it during SMTP conversation. This condition is detected by smtplib and smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused will be raised.

Unfortunately, zope.sendmail.queue.QueueProcessorThread does not handle this type of exception and delivery will be reattempted after 3 hours. This cycle repeats forever, which is undesirable.

The attached patch will treat SMTPRecipientsRefused as permanent failure and remove email from mailbox, so its delivery will be stopped.

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lp:~logan/ubuntu/quantal/zope.sendmail/new-upstream

Merged into lp:ubuntu/quantal/zope.sendmail at revision 6

Barry Warsaw (community): Approve on 2012-08-14

Ubuntu branches: Pending requested 2012-07-15

lp:ubuntu/quantal/zope.sendmail

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Andrey Lebedev (andrey-lebedev) wrote on 2012-05-23:

recipientsrefused.patch Edit (855 bytes, text/x-diff)

affects:

zope3 → zope.sendmail

Tres Seaver (tseaver) on 2012-05-23

Changed in zope.sendmail:
assignee:	nobody → Tres Seaver (tseaver)
status:	New → Confirmed

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Tres Seaver (tseaver) wrote on 2012-05-23:

Thanks for the patch! Committed, with an additional test, to the 3.7 branch:

http://svn.zope.org/zope.sendmail/branches/3.7/?rev=126451&view=rev

and the trunk:

http://svn.zope.org/zope.sendmail/trunk/?rev=126453&view=rev

Changed in zope.sendmail:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

Tres Seaver (tseaver) on 2012-05-23

Changed in zope.sendmail:
milestone:	none → 3.7.5

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Andrey Lebedev (andrey-lebedev) wrote on 2012-05-23:

Tres, thanks for the fast respose!

Tres Seaver (tseaver) on 2012-05-23

Changed in zope.sendmail:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Logan Rosen (logan) on 2012-07-15

Changed in zope.sendmail (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-08-14:

This bug was fixed in the package zope.sendmail - 3.7.5-0ubuntu1

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zope.sendmail (3.7.5-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Fixes "queuedDelivery should be overridable." (LP: #191143)
    - Fixes "SMTPRecipientsRefused not handled in zope.sendmail." (LP: #1003288)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3.
-- Logan Rosen <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:07:58 -0400

Changed in zope.sendmail (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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