#13570: SMTP backend should try harder to figure out the local host name ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: jacob | Owner: nobody Status: new | Milestone: 1.3 Component: django.core.mail | Version: 1.2 Keywords: | Stage: Unreviewed Has_patch: 0 | ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Django's SMTP backend sets the `local_hostname` argument to `smtplib.SMTP` by calling `socket.getfqdn()` (via `django.core.mail.utils.DNS_NAME`, which caches that result). `smtplib` itself uses a slightly more robust method (see `smtplib` around line 245) if `local_hostname` isn't given.
In certain circumstances this can mean that sending mail through `smtplib` directly works, but sending it via `django.core.mail` fails. We could solve this by just passing `local_hostname=None`, but that'd result in a DNS lookup every time we send email, which is silly (and which is why we're caching it in the first place). So, `DNS_NAME` should use similar logic to `smtplib` to try harder to get the DNS hostname. -- Ticket URL: <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13570> Django <http://code.djangoproject.com/> The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django updates" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-updates?hl=en.
