Package: rss2email Version: 3.9-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream As described in #770172, Python doesn't support SSLv3 now, so sending emails over SMTP fails right before STARTTLS attempt with a confusing ‘could not authenticate with mail server’ error message.
Removing an ‘except’ keyword from email.py helped me to diagnose the issue: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/r2e", line 5, in <module> rss2email.main.run() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rss2email/main.py", line 175, in run args.func(feeds=feeds, args=args) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rss2email/command.py", line 62, in run feed.run(send=args.send) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rss2email/feed.py", line 860, in run digest=digest, seen=seen, sender=sender, send=send) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rss2email/feed.py", line 906, in _send_digest self._send(sender=sender, message=digest_msg) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rss2email/feed.py", line 818, in _send config=self.config, section=section) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rss2email/email.py", line 350, in send config=config, section=section) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rss2email/email.py", line 165, in smtp_send protocol = getattr(_ssl, 'PROTOCOL_{}'.format(protocol_name)) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PROTOCOL_SSLv3' What needs to be done is (at least) modification to config.py:196 to replace SSLv3 by TLSv1, or, better, automatic replacement, probably with a warning, in runtime. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org