id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc	parents
5081	Unhelpful SMTP error	Matt Molyneaux		"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"	defect	closed	trivial		programming	fixed	bitesized