#17445: sending mail fails when EMAIL_HOST is an empty string
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Reporter: tinodb | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: closed
Component: Core (Mail) | Version: 1.3
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by kmtracey):
* status: new => closed
* needs_better_patch: => 0
* resolution: => wontfix
* needs_tests: => 0
* needs_docs: => 0
Comment:
The way to have your project use a default value, for any setting, is to
not set it at all in your own settings file. This is described here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/settings/#default-settings
If you instead set it to an empty value, that's the value that will be
used. Likely there are many settings that will give odd errors if this is
done. I don't see that EMAIL_HOST is special in some way that Django's
code should guard against an "improper" setting and fallback to the
default in spite of what's been set in the local settings file. Which
implies if we were to "fix" this case, we should "fix" all such settings
where an empty value would likely never be correct, and make them fallback
to their defaults. Which I don't think we want to do.
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