Re: [GSoC PATCH v5 0/2] sendemail: improve error capture and status code handling
On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 07:32, Zheng Yuting <05zyt30@gmail.com> wrote:
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> This patch series improves SMTP authentication error handling.
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> Auth relied solely on return values without capturing exceptions,
> misjudging non-credential errors as authentication failures.
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> Patch v5 1/2 wraps the auth process in an eval {} block to catch all
> exceptions, adds var error for future handling, and var result to return
> auth state.
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> Patch v5 2/2 introduces finer-grained SMTP error handling, extracting
> status codes per RFC 5321 to differentiate between temporary (4yz) and
> permanent (5yz) errors. Unrecognized codes are treated as permanent
> failures. Otherwise return the authentication result.
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> Zheng Yuting (2):
> sendemail: capture errors in an eval {} block
> sendemail: finer-grained SMTP error handling
>I'm not sure if this is worth a re-roll but, `sendemail` should be `send-email`.
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> git-send-email.perl | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
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> 2.48.1
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