#21271: Django's usage of smtplib.SMTP should have a timeout
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Reporter: edevil | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Core (Mail) | Version: 1.5
Severity: Normal | Keywords: smtp timeout
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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When EmailBackend initializes SMTP objects it does not provide a timeout,
and the default timeout is object() (no timeout). It would be sensible to
provide some configurable timeout.
I've got bitten by this when using the AdminEmailHandler. My database went
down, a lot of exceptions were generated and Django was trying to send
emails. The SMTP server started not responding and the requests started
blocking, until all my workers were used up. By then Django stopped
serving requests. Basically, I was DoSed by my own SMTP server.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21271>
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