Error message should be more detailed when sending an email has failed

asked 2015-09-22 10:02:42 +0200

tokaru
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When sending an e-mail via SMTP without success, the error message just says something like "... could not be sent", which is not helpful at all. Please add more details like

• "Could not connect to server"
• "Authentication failure"
• "Service temporary not available"
• "Internal server error"

etc, along with the response from the server, if any.

Just letting the user hope ("maybe it will be working later") and later guess which part of the configuration might be wrong is bad user experience.