Hi folks,

Do any/some/many of you use cygport ...cygport announce to generate your update
announcements, and does it work successfully?

It has never worked for me, but Thunderbird, git send-email, mailx, mail, email,
s-nail, my own scripts, with similar configs, and telnet, work okay, as shown at
the bottom of this email and the log.

Any ideas why cygport ... announce using perl libnet/Net::SMTP would have
problems, how to diagnose or debug, and fix?

Relevant code follows +/_pkg_announce /usr/share/cygport/lib/pkg_upload.cygpart

Attached log has irrelevant output and escape sequences removed, commands added,
and remainder sanitized; summary is:

$ cygport --debug tzcode.cygport announce |& tee cygport-announce-no-mailserver.log
...
>>> Preparing announcement tzcode-2020d-1.x86_64
+ __pkg_announce
...
+ /usr/bin/vim /tmp/cygwin-announce-tzcode-2020d-1.oKxmkN
Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
ZZ
+ perl /dev/fd/62
++ cat
Sending announcement of tzcode-2020d-1 via smtp
No mailserver at smtp at /dev/fd/62 line 16.
+ error 'Sending announcement failed, mbox is
/tmp/cygwin-announce-tzcode-2020d-1.oKxmkN'
+ case $? in
+ local errorcode=9
+ echo -e '*** ERROR: Sending announcement failed, mbox is
/tmp/cygwin-announce-tzcode-2020d-1.oKxmkN'
*** ERROR: Sending announcement failed, mbox is
/tmp/cygwin-announce-tzcode-2020d-1.oKxmkN
+ exit 9
$ telnet smtp smtp |& tee -a cygport-announce-no-mailserver.log
Trying ...
Connected to smtp.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mo22.dcs.int.inet ...ca ESMTP server ready
250-mo22.dcs.int.inet hello [...], pleased to meet you
250-HELP
250-SIZE 29360128
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250 OK
221 2.0.0 mo22.dcs.int.inet ...ca closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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