From acbf42f89d966eceecaabcaad639afbd8d65696f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Zimmermann <info@posativ.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:47:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix SMTP connectivity test, appendum to a8d0670

---
 isso/notify.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/isso/notify.py b/isso/notify.py
index c37c30f..adb5244 100644
--- a/isso/notify.py
+++ b/isso/notify.py
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ class SMTPMailer(object):
         self.from_addr = conf.get('SMTP', 'from')
         self.to_addr = conf.get('SMTP', 'to')
 
+        # test SMTP connectivity
+        with Connection(self.conf):
+            pass
+
     def sendmail(self, subject, body):
 
         msg = MIMEText(body, 'plain', 'utf-8')