Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.7-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Sending mail trough an SMTP server, whenever the server responds with some error code, Kmail displays a dialog box saying something like:
Failed delivery: It was not possible to write into the "socket". The message will stay in the "Outgoing" folder until you fix the problem (v.gr. incorrect address) or you remove the message from the "Outgoing" folder. The following transport protocol was used: (the name of the outgoing mail settings) (Approximate wording, I'm translating it from Spanish) This appeared when I tried to send a message over SSMTP (port 465) and the server disliked the message's envelope sender address for local policy reasons. Here is another example: Failed delivery: (the name of the outgoing mail settings). The message will stay in the "Outgoing" folder until you fix the problem (v.gr. incorrect address) or you remove the message from the "Outgoing" folder. The following transport protocol was used: (the name of the outgoing mail settings) This one appeared retying the same message but using SMTP (port 25) because I wanted to see with tcpdump wht was actually happening. I should't have to resort to sniffing the network to diagnose this kind of problems: the MUA should either display whatever it has gotten from the server, or try to interpret the error codes it gets and explain the context where the error happened. Saying that it was not possible to write into a socket is useless. What socket? Connected to what? What was written? For what porpouse? It certainly wrote something to the socket used to connect to the server at port 465, I saw plenty of illegible stuff in tcpdump's output. So, this is also misleading. The message in the other example is even less useful: the "explanation" is simply the name of the configuration settings used to send the the message, an information repeated later in the dialog box. I consider this bug of "normal" severity instead of "minor" because not giving helpful information to the user for her resolving a problem that prevents sending mail, is not something that "doesn't affect the package usefulness", when the package in question is a MUA. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kmail depends on: ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.4.5-1 runtime components from the offici ii kdepim-runtime 4:4.4.7-1 Runtime components for akonadi-kde ii kdepimlibs-kio-plug 4:4.4.5-2 kio slaves used by KDE PIM applica ii libakonadi-contact4 4:4.4.5-2 library for using the Akonadi PIM ii libakonadi-kde4 4:4.4.5-2 library for using the Akonadi PIM ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libgpgme++2 4:4.4.5-2 c++ wrapper library for gpgme ii libkabc4 4:4.4.5-2 library for handling address book ii libkcal4 4:4.4.5-2 library for handling calendar data ii libkde3support4 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 the KDE 3 Support Library for the ii libkdecore5 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 the KDE Platform Core Library ii libkdepim4 4:4.4.7-3 KDE PIM library ii libkdeui5 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 the KDE Platform User Interface Li ii libkhtml5 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 the KHTML Web Content Rendering En ii libkimap4 4:4.4.5-2 library for handling IMAP data ii libkio5 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 the Network-enabled File Managemen ii libkldap4 4:4.4.5-2 library for accessing LDAP ii libkleo4 4:4.4.7-3 certificate based crypto library ii libkmime4 4:4.4.5-2 library for handling MIME data ii libknotifyconfig4 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 library for configuring KDE Notifi ii libkontactinterface 4:4.4.5-2 Kontact interface library ii libkparts4 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 the Framework for the KDE Platform ii libkpgp4 4:4.4.7-3 gpg based crypto library ii libkpimidentities4 4:4.4.5-2 library for managing user identiti ii libkpimtextedit4 4:4.4.5-2 library that provides a textedit w ii libkpimutils4 4:4.4.5-2 library for dealing with email add ii libkresources4 4:4.4.5-2 the KDE Resource framework library ii libksieve4 4:4.4.7-3 mail/news message filtering librar ii libktnef4 4:4.4.5-2 library for handling TNEF data ii libkutils4 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 various utility classes for the KD ii libmailtransport4 4:4.4.5-2 mail transport service library ii libmessagecore4 4:4.4.7-3 message core library ii libmessagelist4 4:4.4.7-3 message list library ii libmimelib4 4:4.4.7-3 MIME library ii libnepomuk4 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 the Nepomuk Meta Data Library ii libphonon4 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 the core library of the Phonon mul ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 4 D-Bus module ii libqt4-network 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 4 network module ii libqt4-qt3support 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt ii libqt4-xml 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 4 XML module ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 4 GUI module ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libthreadweaver4 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1 the ThreadWeaver Library for the K ii perl 5.10.1-17squeeze2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii phonon 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 metapackage for the Phonon multime Versions of packages kmail recommends: ii gnupg-agent 2.0.14-2 GNU privacy guard - password agent ii gnupg2 2.0.14-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii pinentry-gtk2 [pinentry-x11] 0.8.0-1 GTK+-2-based PIN or pass-phrase en ii pinentry-qt4 [pinentry-x11] 0.8.0-1 Qt-4-based PIN or pass-phrase entr Versions of packages kmail suggests: pn clamav | f-prot-installer <none> (no description available) ii kaddressbook 4:4.4.7-3 address book and contact data mana pn kleopatra <none> (no description available) pn procmail <none> (no description available) pn spamassassin | bogofilter | a <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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