send-bug-notifications.py will explode if the SMTP server refuses to send to a recipient

[Graham Binns]

If the SMTP server refuses to send to a recipient (see https://pastebin.canonical.com/12356/ for an example), send-bug-notifications.py will die without committing to the database any sent notifications. This causes the notifications to be resent ad infinitum and stops send-bug-notifications from running properly.

send-bug-notifications should be updated to handle exceptions from smtplib.sendmail (which is where refusals from the server get turned into exceptions) gracefully and still commit those notifications that have been sent successfully.

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

Marking this Low since it doesn't occur often.

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

Marking this high and targeting it to 2.2.1 since elmo reports this has caused problems more than once.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

This has been marked in progress for over a month. Let's mark it Triaged until work on it begins again.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r17682 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/17682>.