Sending SMTP fails miserably if MTA does not support AUTH

[Peter]

2008-03-25 08:59:36,604 Trac[api] ERROR: AnnouncementSystem failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/announcerplugin/api.py", line 376, in _real_send
    distributor.distribute(transport, packages[transport], evt)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AnnouncerPlugin-0.2-py2.5.egg/announcerplugin/distributors/email_distributor.py", line 190, in distribute
    self._do_send(transport, event, format, messages[format], formats[format])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AnnouncerPlugin-0.2-py2.5.egg/announcerplugin/distributors/email_distributor.py", line 268, in _do_send
    self._transmit(*package)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AnnouncerPlugin-0.2-py2.5.egg/announcerplugin/distributors/email_distributor.py", line 276, in _transmit
    smtp.login(self.smtp_user, self.smtp_password)
  File "smtplib.py", line 554, in login
    raise SMTPException("SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.")
SMTPException: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.

If 'threaded delivery' is enabled this error message is not even logged and sending notifications fails silently

[der Igel]

Yep, the same problem. It's not necessary set username and password when they are empty.

[anonymous]

I got the same error... So what to do ?

[Cedric Hurst]

use the patch provided in this ticket