Bug#1077990: reportbug: text ui: when sending report by SMTP, if password was mistyped, can't enter a new one

[Gabriel Filion <lelutin@torproject.org>]

Hello Nis,

On 2024-08-10 16:03, Nis Martensen wrote:
> Hi Gabriel,
>
> On 05.08.2024 17.00, Gabriel Filion wrote:
> > When using the text UI, when it comes time to send via SMTP and I
> > need to connect to an MTA in order to send the email as an
> > authenticated user, if I happen to mistype the password I get an
> > error back from the server about the failed login.
> >
> > However, in that situation it's not possible to tell reportbug to
> > prompt me again for a new password. The only options I have is to
> > resend with the same credentials without asking, save and quit or
> > abort entirely. So currently, the only way to fix my typo for the
> > password is to save the report and then relaunch again.
>
> If the reason is a mistyped password then reportbug should automatically
> ask for the password again on the next try. Reportbug tries to recognize
> this based on the error raised by smtplib. The code is here:
> https://sources.debian.org/src/reportbug/13.0.1/reportbug/submit.py/#L486

oh! ok good to know that authentication errors do trigger a new password 
prompt then!

> If reportbug does not ask for the password again, then the error raised
> by smtplib is not an SMTPAuthenticationError. It seems like in your
> example the problem was an SMTPHeloError. Can you please check if the
> real reason in your case was something else than a wrong password?

gah indeed, the issue was with my setup / reportbug config. I ended up 
figuring out what was happening and I'm now able to send emails with 
reportbug.

sorry for the noise. we can close this bug report