[ python-Bugs-751612 ] smtplib crashes Windows Kernal.
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Bugs item #751612, was opened at 2003-06-09 18:44
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Category: Windows
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: mark lee smith (netytan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: smtplib crashes Windows Kernal.
Initial Comment:
When trying to use the smtplib module (or modules
which use smtplib i.e. email) the Windows Kenal crashes
without sending the email. I'm trying to send the email
through an external mail server but I imagine the problem
would still exist if I was using a local mailserver.
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>Comment By: Terry J. Reedy (tjreedy)
Date: 2005-04-26 17:58
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Seems to be WinME bug. Closing.
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Comment By: mark lee smith (netytan)
Date: 2003-06-25 16:20
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If you mean the error message "..caused an error in..Windows
Kernal", you can click ok and it closes most of the time, other
times the whole machine bails. I've tested it now on Windows
XP pro and home and it sends straight through. I'm gonna try
get hold of a 98 box so I can test it but it seems to be just
my ME box at the moment.
Mark
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Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2003-06-25 10:30
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Can this be closed?
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Comment By: mark lee smith (netytan)
Date: 2003-06-11 18:36
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Will do, I'll try run the script from my box upstairs and one at
work. Thanks for all your help, at least it's sending email, be it
you need to send "^D" in that example but with a little
reworking it should be a problem. Thank's again.
P.S let's blame Microsoft, never did like them, so dodgy lol. If
I could get away from Windows I would but unfortunatly it's a
commercial standard.. Ta
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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2003-06-11 17:36
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I don't hold out much hope that this will get resolved.
Windows has tons of bugs (a lot more than Python!), and it's
not uncommon to find a program (Python-based or otherwise)
that fails on only one specific Windows box in the world. For
example, you could have a corrupted bit in any of the
thousand Windows DLLs on your box, or you may simply be
behind in running Windows Update. Other possibilities include
that you're running a virus checker (those often interfere with
normal program operations), or are behind an improperly
written firewall.
So long as your report is the only one of this nature, there's
really no hope for resolving it short you digging into it. I don't
see any evidence of a bug in Python here (worse, a crash in a
core OS DLL is prima facia evidence of a bug in the OS!).
If you can, try running the same thing on a friend's Windows
box. I bet you won't have any problem there.
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Comment By: mark lee smith (netytan)
Date: 2003-06-11 17:22
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Ok, I ran your file and it returned the same as when I ran
mine, both crashed the Kernal. I think the reason that the
mail wasn't being sent before was that I forgot to finish the
message with "^D" although the main problem remains, what
is the Kernal crashing out :S..
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Comment By: mark lee smith (netytan)
Date: 2003-06-11 16:53
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Hi, I've replicated what had before exactly, the win32 Kernal
still crashes but the mail is delivered :S, don't ask me why it
sends now and didn't before, nothing has changed to my
knowlage.. Anyway if I've done this right it should be
attached to this.
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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2003-06-09 19:47
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Just attaching tcap.txt. Note that on Windows, you have to
end the msg with Ctrl-Z (not the Unixish Ctrl-D in the example
comments).
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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2003-06-09 19:45
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I'll show you what I'm looking for: attached is the exact code
I just ran, in smtpex.py, and a screen dump from running it, in
tcap.txt. I changed the example to use comcast.net's SMTP
server. It worked fine for me on Win98SE. I was using
Python 2.2.3, and don't know whether that makes a
difference.
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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2003-06-09 19:39
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I don't understand. If you're not running an SMTP server on
localhost, I expect that example to die with
socket.error: (10061, 'Connection refused')
And indeed, that's what it does when I try it on Win98SE. So
I conclude you must have changed the example in some way.
If so, the solution to your problem will be found in the details
of you changed it. Nobody can guess that, so please attach
the code you actually ran.
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Comment By: mark lee smith (netytan)
Date: 2003-06-09 19:25
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Im using Python 2.2.2 and the example in smtplib
documentation originally caused the error. It crashes the
Kernal on Windows ME and 98, failing to send on Windows XP.
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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2003-06-09 18:51
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We're going to need more info, and potentially a lot more.
Start with which version of Python and which flavor of
Windows. Lots of people use smtplib on all flavors of
Windows, and there are no other reports like yours, so it's
going to turn out to be something very specific to what
you're doing. Also. of possible, attach an executable test
program that reliably triggers the problem for you.
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