We had a user in the IRC channel who had an issue with getting email verification setup. Based on the error they received¹ they assumed that MediaGoblin could route mail to remote hosts on its own². They were slightly confused by all this.

We should catch such errors and provide a more descriptive error that doesn't require the reading of Python tracebacks to understand. Something like "Couldn't contact mail server on <host>:<port>" would be far more helpful.

Feel free to contact me on IRC (moggers87) if you're thinking of tackling this ticket and are unfamiliar with MediaGoblin's internals.

¹: ​http://pastebin.ca/2965561 ²: it cannot

Well, I have all sorts of PDFs being uploaded properly on the server. This one we will annex is simply not working.

This comes from paster log:

No macro or processor named 'bash' found

Nothing useful shows up in media processing panel apart from upload failed.

We get the message of "whoa submitted" after uploading.

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