Ok, I'll do it tomorrow.

On Sunday, September 28, 2014 5:35:31 PM UTC+2, Florian Apolloner wrote:
>
> Hi Marcin,
>
> can you please open a ticket for this? If you are up to it, a patch with 
> tests would be superb!
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>
> On Sunday, September 28, 2014 1:26:42 PM UTC+2, Marcin Nowak wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> After sereral minutes while using new Django (1.7) in DEBUG mode, I've 
>> got enigmatic error on the screen: "A server error occurred. Please 
>> contact the administrator."
>> This message is shown when another exception is raised within 
>> django.core.handlers.base.handle_uncaught_exception.
>> What exception was raised inside uncaught exception handler? 
>> socket.error. Why? Django tried to send me an email using nonexistent smtp 
>> (localhost:25, the default). 
>>
>> AdminEmailHandler is sending emails with fail_silently set to True, but 
>> the django.core.mail.smtp backend does not respect this setting as 
>> expected. Any connection problem will generate "A server error 
>> occured[...]" screen instead of traceback or error 500 page. This issue was 
>> created by resolving https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21189 
>>
>> "Fail silently" mode with SMTP backend is not 100% silent anymore. I saw 
>> that docs were changed, but the behaviour is inconsistent now. As a 
>> developer I'm expecting to silence ANY email error, including connection 
>> errors (not only SMTP errors). As an application developer I have no idea 
>> which email backend will be used, so I can't wrap every "mail.send()" with 
>> additional try-except block catching all possible exceptions. When I need 
>> to silent sending email fail, the email backend should do it for me (as 
>> before v1.7).
>>
>> Line 
>> https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.7.x/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py#L61
>>  
>> should catch socket.error too, or should be reverted to previous state.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Marcin
>>
>>

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