[tor-bugs] #23032 [Obfuscation/BridgeDB]: BridgeDB's email server stopped working upon upgrade to Debian 9

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#23032: BridgeDB's email server stopped working upon upgrade to Debian 9
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 Reporter:  isis                  |          Owner:  isis
     Type:  defect                |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Very High             |      Milestone:
Component:  Obfuscation/BridgeDB  |        Version:
 Severity:  Major                 |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  bridgedb-email        |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                        |         Points:  1
 Reviewer:                        |        Sponsor:  SponsorM
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Changes (by isis):

 * status:  new => closed
 * points:   => 1
 * resolution:   => fixed


Comment:

 A temporary fix for this was to downgrade to Twisted==16.1.1. I've done
 this in my `fix/22998`
 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/isis/bridgedb.git/log/?h=fix/22998
 branch] which has been merged to `develop` for 0.5.x.  I also hotpatched
 polyanthum, since without the emergency fix the email distributor would be
 broken.

 We'll eventually need to sort out the differences and rewrite a bunch of
 stuff if we want to ever use anything newer than Twisted==16.1.1.  (Or
 once Hyphae is done, IMHO we should just kill the email distributor
 entirely, because it sees like 99.99999% spam/bots.)

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