Trac should log errors it encounters with SMTP

[mikec@…]

Trying to debug a problem with SMTP notifications is made more difficult because Trac doesn't report much. SMTP errors are a fact of life. Trac administrators working in an environment with little control over the rest of the system (like me!) is also a fact of life: my SMTP servers are offsite, my sysadmin is part-time and not really an expert, and I don't have direct access to the actual SMTP hosting service. The SMTP error is probably due to configuration, but I can't easily find out what's misconfigured.

If TRAC could spew something to the log when it encounters an error on the SMTP server (preferably at ERROR severity), it would make my life better. As it is, until I solve this problem, I'm unable to deploy TRAC.

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Trac does log such errors. Upon further conversation it became clear the user is having a problem with a plugin, not Trac itself (acct_mgr's email verification).