[1.5.x] Fixed #19382 -- Stopped smtp backend raising exception when already closed

Thanks Sebastian Noack for the report and the initial patch.
Backport of ffa50ca35 from master.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/mail/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/mail/tests.py
index 9ab8c2c301..059dd6d09a 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/mail/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/mail/tests.py
@@ -492,6 +492,16 @@ class BaseEmailBackendTests(object):
         self.assertEqual(message.get('from'), "tester")
         self.assertEqual(message.get('to'), "django")
 
+    def test_close_connection(self):
+        """
+        Test that connection can be closed (even when not explicitely opened)
+        """
+        conn = mail.get_connection(username='', password='')
+        try:
+            conn.close()
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.fail("close() unexpectedly raised an exception: %s" % e)
+
 
 class LocmemBackendTests(BaseEmailBackendTests, TestCase):
     email_backend = 'django.core.mail.backends.locmem.EmailBackend'