Recover password exception

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1/18/2007 7:32:07 AM
Alexander V. Yushchenko
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Recover password exception

After entering login/email on /Secure/RecoverPassword.aspx I get an exception:

Exception Details: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

After investigation of the stack trace I saw that it was because I did not configure SMTP setting to send the password.
I think it is better to write some error message instead of throwing an unhandled exception in this case.
1/18/2007 11:25:03 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Recover password exception

I have added handling for mail errors in svn branches/2.x

Thanks,

Joe
1/19/2007 5:33:46 AM
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Re: Recover password exception

The message does not seem to be correct.
Now it is the following:

"Sorry, your password could not be sent because the server was unable to send the message due  to a configuration error. Please notify the Site Administrator. The error has been logged."

But according to the code it is displayed in case any error with sending the email message occurs.
It would be nice (and more correct) to change it like

"Sorry, your password could not be sent because the server was unable to send the message. Please try again in a few minutes. Contact the Site Administrator if the problem persists."
1/19/2007 7:41:09 AM
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Re: Recover password exception

Ok, I modified the wording so as not say its a configuration error but in actuality that is the only likely cause of an error here. The only exceptions I was able to raise were unable to resolve host and sockets exception both caused by misconfiguration. The error does get logged in Data/currentlog.config

Joe
1/19/2007 8:37:09 AM
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Re: Recover password exception

It can be also some issue with SMTP server itself configuration.
For example, SMTP server on my work refuses to send e-mail if one in the "from" field is not from our domain.
1/19/2007 9:07:24 AM
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Re: Recover password exception

That still boils down to configuration error, nevertheless I have removed that wording from the message.



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