On 12/21/2016 10:53 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
If it had become obsolete it wouldn't have been removed from the mailer.py code to maintain backwards compatibility. More likely, that parameter never existed in mailer.py as distributed by us. The comment in that blog suggests it's a local patch by "asadomov".
You're right, it comes together with a change (patch you mention) in mailer.py which I probably applied but recently lost with some OS upgrade/update.
Make it possible for the configuration file to choose between SMTP_SSL() or SMTP(). I won't be looking into that myself, but if you wish to do so, a patch would be welcome: https://subversion.apache.org/patches
Thanks. I have submitted a patch to the developers mailing list. (It's my first time.)
Best regards, João M. S. Silva