Received: from [172.16.1.164] (root@raven.ravenbrook.com [193.82.131.18]) by raven.ravenbrook.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA10434 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:05:35 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: gdr@pop3 Message-Id: Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:52:33 -0500 To: p4dti-staff@ravenbrook.com From: Gareth Rees Subject: Test report for release 0.4.2, 2001-02-02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" This is a report from installing the TeamTrack integration at TechExcel. 1. TechExcel's SMTP server (I think it's Microsoft Exchange) is actually running ESMTP (Extended SMTP) and requires clients to authenticate themselves. Python doesn't talk ESMTP so neither do we, so we couldn't send e-mail. Can we find a Python interface that supports this? If not, it needs to be documented in the section in the AG on the smtp_server configuration variable. 2. There is no way to turn off the sending of e-mail. As far as the replicator is concerned, the 'administrator-address' and 'smtp-server' configurations keys can be None, in which case it sends no e-mail. But configure_DT.py doesn't allow the corresponding configuration parameters to be None, so this feature isn't available to the administrator. Since the replicator couldn't send e-mail because of problem 1 above, this meant that every time there was a problem the replicator stopped. If I had been able to turn e-mail off then it could have continued.