From 79f64cbe72e66aad28a6834076a6b1f7d3e85b99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mdipierro <massimo.dipierro@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:30:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fixed handling of smtplib.SMTPException, thanks Paolo

---
 gluon/tools.py | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gluon/tools.py b/gluon/tools.py
index 5b7221af..9fafd48e 100644
--- a/gluon/tools.py
+++ b/gluon/tools.py
@@ -819,13 +819,12 @@ class Mail(object):
                     # do not want to hide errors raising some exception here
                     try:
                         server.quit()
-                    except:
-                        pass
-                    # ensure to close any socket with SMTP server
-                    try:
-                        server.close()
-                    except:
-                        pass
+                    except smtplib.SMTPException:
+                        # ensure to close any socket with SMTP server
+                        try:
+                            server.close()
+                        except Exception:
+                            pass
         except Exception as e:
             logger.warning('Mail.send failure:%s' % e)
             self.result = result