Re: Possible minor bug in tmda-ofmipd

Stephen Warren <[email protected]> writes:

> So, I just tested:
> a) Sending an email with an envelope recipient in an invalid format
> b) Sending an email to a non-existent local user on the server

Thanks for looking into this further.

> 3) From a user-experience point of view, I'd say the
> asyncore-generated response message is far worse than the current
> "Internal exception" message, since the full exception details and
> traceback are sent back to the client.

The reason I chose to do that is so that the user could cut/paste the
exceptions details into a bug report to us.  A generic "Internal
exception" message seems like it could be more confusing (as in Ole's
case) and more difficult to track down what went wrong.

> Still, overall, it doesn't seem like the extra exception handling
> code is actually required any more, so I can remove it. However, the
> user visible behavior won't change at all, just the content of the
> error message.

Sounds good.