Raise exceptions in mail_admins()/mail_managers() when settings are not in expected formats.

[Kevin Blicharski]

Hi,

First time writing a ticket so I apologize if I do anything improperly here. This issue just arose on a project I've been working on, and it goes as follows:

Our MANAGERS setting was set like so:

MANAGERS = ['one@example.com', 'two@example.com']

And after calling mail_managers, the result was:

smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused: {'=?utf-8?q?h?=': (550, b'5.1.1 <=?utf-8?q?h?=>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table'), '=?utf-8?q?u?=': (550, b'5.1.1 <=?utf-8?q?u?=>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table')}

After some investigation it became clear that this setting was in the improper format, but that was only because of ​this StackOverflow post. It would be nice if Django failed early if this setting was detected but improperly set, rather than waiting until the consequences become apparent.

Thank you,
Kevin

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Thanks for the report. It seems reasonable to raise ValueError in mail_admins() and mail_managers() when settings are not in expected formats.

[Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>]

In 090ca65:

Fixed #30604 -- Made mail_admins()/mail_managers() raise ValueError if ADMINS/MANAGERS is set incorrectly.