Nullmailer binare does not support --ssl or --starttls making it unusable for mailing through Google etc

[John]

Other distros support --ssl and --starttls which are essential to communicate with modern SMTP setups such as Google`s. That in combination with the lacking documentation (both man pages and official web pages) makes users assume that these options will work in Ubuntu as well.

The package runs Nullmailer as a daemon, which of course is desired, but it also makes Nullmailer hide the error that occurs when --starttls or --ssl are used. It is not written to any log file, only standard output or standard error.

Please make the package usable by compiling it with support for modern SMTP architecutres.

For more information see:
See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/340847/nullmailer-gives-unspecified-temporary-error-when-trying-to-send-mail-using-go/340933#340933

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nick Leverton (nick-leverton)]

This was added in nullmailer 1.10. First version in Ubuntu supporting sending with TLS was 1.11 (Quantal / Ubuntu 12.10)