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-rw-r--r--Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py31
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py b/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py
index acaa77e2..c61336fe 100644
--- a/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py
+++ b/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py
@@ -349,16 +349,27 @@ def bulkdeliver(mlist, msg, msgdata, envsender, failures, conn):
# Send the message
refused = conn.sendmail(envsender, recips, msgtext)
except smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused, e:
+ syslog('smtp-failure', 'All recipients refused: %s', e)
refused = e.recipients
- # MTA not responding, or other socket problems, or any other kind of
- # SMTPException. In that case, nothing got delivered
- except (socket.error, smtplib.SMTPException, IOError), e:
- # BAW: should this be configurable?
- syslog('smtp', 'All recipients refused: %s', e)
- # If the exception had an associated error code, use it, otherwise,
- # fake it with a non-triggering exception code
- errcode = getattr(e, 'smtp_code', -1)
- errmsg = getattr(e, 'smtp_error', 'ignore')
+ except smtplib.SMTPResponseException, e:
+ syslog('smtp-failure', 'SMTP session failure: %s, %s',
+ e.smtp_code, smtp_error)
+ # If this was a permanent failure, don't add the recipients to the
+ # refused, because we don't want them to be added to failures.
+ # Otherwise, if the MTA rejects the message because of the message
+ # content (e.g. it's spam, virii, or has syntactic problems), then
+ # this will end up registering a bounce score for every recipient.
+ # Definitely /not/ what we want.
+ if e.smtp_code < 500 or e.smtp_code == 552:
+ # It's a temporary failure
+ for r in recips:
+ refused[r] = (e.smtp_code, e.smtp_error)
+ except (socket.error, IOError, smtplib.SMTPException), e:
+ # MTA not responding, or other socket problems, or any other kind of
+ # SMTPException. In that case, nothing got delivered, so treat this
+ # as a temporary failure.
+ syslog('smtp-failure', 'Low level smtp connection error: %s', e)
+ error = str(e)
for r in recips:
- refused[r] = (errcode, errmsg)
+ refused[r] = (-1, error)
failures.update(refused)