Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, if no mail is sent over the SMTP connection,
> smtplib.sendmail should raise an SMTPRecipientsRefused exception.
> This exception is trapped and rss2email exits with an error message.
I'll need to check that. (I only experienced the bug with the sendmail
interface).
> I don't feel that this bug actually qualifies as grave severity. The
> potential for actual data loss depends on obscure situations where
> the data in the rss feed/blog vanishes after rss2email consumes it.
My issue is not so much about mails getting lost here, but rather
about the combination of
(a) the state file being worthless WRT what messages need to be
fetched without the user noticing
and
(b) the state file not easily being read and modified with a text
editor.
> Relying on an email system as the only way to retreive data is a bad
> assumption to make today; you'll lose data anyway even if rss2email
> doesn't fail, due to bogus spam traps, etc.
I still maintain that mail (and state) loss due to a simple return
code not being checked is entirely rss2email's fault.
If fetchmail or a tool with similar goals behaved like this where it
could be avoided, there would be little doubt that this is
unacceptable and needs to be fixed.
Cheers,
-Hilko
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