[Monotone-devel] Re: stmp problems

[graydon hoare]

Magnus Therning wrote:

> It is reproducable (don't know if that's good or bad :-), simply put two
> (one is too few, haven't tried three or more) email targets in the table

yeah, thanks to the log dump you mailed me, I reproduced this, it's just 
a small bug (missing copy constructor for a refcounted object, duh). 
I've posted a fix to my depot, it should work now.

> There are some other problems with the smtp posting as well:
>
>  - I am not sure that assuming that the domain of the email address has
>    an accessible server is a good thing:

true enough, this ought to be more flexible, either via get_connect_addr 
or similar. would some docs on using get_connect_addr be enough for that?

>  - In case 2 above the code for posting smtp_blobs will simply retry
>    until the end of time :(

I think tromey noted this bug and I fixed it a couple days ago (was also 
happening with http error states). should be solved in my depot.

now, if we could just get you fetching packets :)

-graydon