rss2email gives: Fatal error: could not connect to mail server

[Todd Zullinger]

Thufir wrote:
> Ok, progress :)
> 
> some sort of error relating to specific rss feed?  I tried a few, so
> that seems unlikely.

I think it's some error caused by bad data in the feed list.  Maybe
that got there somehow while you were trying various things?

> [root at benetleilax .rss2email]# whoami
> root

::shudders and tries not to look::

> [root at benetleilax .rss2email]# cat config.py
> # Find some common used config options below; all can be found all and 
> # descriptions in the section titled "### Vaguely Customizable Options ###"
> # near the top of /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py
> 
> DEFAULT_FROM="bozo at dev.null.invalid"
> HTML_MAIL=1
> SMTP_SEND=1
> SMTP_SERVER="smtp.gmail.com"
> AUTHREQUIRED=0
> SMTP_USER="hawat.thufir"
> SMTP_PASS="password"
> #no, that's not my password :)
> DATE_HEADER=0
> # PROXY=""

Mostly that looks sane.  I don't know if you'll get errors from gmail
if you connect with the default from.  Perhaps that should be changed
to something legitimate.  Also, with AUTHREQUIRED=0, I don't think
that the SMTP_USER and SMTP_PASS will be used (just guessing, as I
haven't poked at the code much).

Of course, these are only potential issues once you get past the error
below. :)

> [root at benetleilax .rss2email]# r2e list
> default email: hawat.thufir at gmail.com
> 1: feedparser (default: hawat.thufir at gmail.com)
> 2: 4.1 (default: hawat.thufir at gmail.com)
> 3: http://vancouver.craigslist.org/mcy/index.rss (default: hawat.thufir at gmail.com)

#1 and #2 look wrong.  Perhaps those got in there during other
experiments?  Maybe try moving the conf dir and starting fresh?

mv ~/.rss2email ~/.rss2email.bak
r2e new hawat.thufir at gmail.com

Edit ~/.rss2email/config.py to contain

# Find some common used config options below; all can be found all and 
# descriptions in the section titled "### Vaguely Customizable Options ###"
# near the top of /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py

DEFAULT_FROM="bozo at dev.null.invalid"
HTML_MAIL=1
SMTP_SEND=1
SMTP_SERVER="smtp.gmail.com"
AUTHREQUIRED=1
SMTP_USER="hawat.thufir"
SMTP_PASS="password"
#no, that's not my password :)
DATE_HEADER=0
# PROXY=""

Then add a test feed:

r2e add http://vancouver.craigslist.org/mcy/index.rss
r2e run

> [root at benetleilax .rss2email]# r2e run
> E: error in "feedparser" feed (<unknown>:2:-1: Document is empty)
> E: error in "4.1" feed (<unknown>:2:-1: Document is empty)
> === SEND THE FOLLOWING TO rss2email at aaronsw.com ===
> E: could not parse http://vancouver.craigslist.org/mcy/index.rss
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 644, in run
>     smtpserver = send(fromhdr, tohdr, subjecthdr, content, contenttype,
> extraheaders, smtpserver)
>   File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 178, in send
>     smtpserver.sendmail(sender, recipient, msg_as_string)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 684, in sendmail
>     raise SMTPSenderRefused(code, resp, from_addr)
> SMTPSenderRefused: (530, '5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first
> 40sm6172305nzf', u'"craigslist | motorcycles/scooters in vancouver, BC"
> <webmaster at craigslist.org>')

This looks like an error caused while trying to connect to gmail.
Possibly this is due to AUTHREQUIRED being set to 0 instead of 1 in
your config?  There are certainly many variables and places things
could be going awry.

FWIW, I added that feed and did r2e run without errors.  So it does
seem to work.

> It comes across as a bug, but it seems more likely to be user error,
> I must admit.

:)  I think you're not far from having things working, but there might
be some junk left in your config from getting to this point.
Hopefully a fresh config file might get you better results.

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