>>It >>occurs to me that we should print the port number that we are using in >>the error message, as that would provide a hint to people as to what is >>going wrong. > >That would be (and would have been) most helpful. > >Instead of saying failure to connect to "localhost" it would have been most >helpful if the message had said failure to connect to "localhost:587".
Here's the new message: post: problem initializing server; [BHST] Connection to "localhost:587" failed: Connection refused This code has been committed to the tree and will be in the next release. I would note that the port number shows up now if you use -snoop, but it's clear that people don't always use that switch. If there are MULTIPLE addresses that are being connected to then the error message suggests you use -snoop for more detail, but I don't think it's worth doing that for the ordinary case here. --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
