4 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/multimail/CHANGES b/contrib/hooks/multimail/CHANGES
index 0b823d8f5f..6bb12306b8 100644
--- a/contrib/hooks/multimail/CHANGES
+++ b/contrib/hooks/multimail/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Release 1.1.1 (bugfix-only release)
+===================================
+
+* The SMTP mailer was not working with Python 2.4.
+
 Release 1.1.0
 =============
 
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/multimail/README b/contrib/hooks/multimail/README
index 3a33cb734a..e552c90c45 100644
--- a/contrib/hooks/multimail/README
+++ b/contrib/hooks/multimail/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-git-multimail Version 1.1.0
+git-multimail Version 1.1.1
 ===========================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/git-multimail/git-multimail.svg?branch=master
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/multimail/README.Git b/contrib/hooks/multimail/README.Git
index 449d36f156..f5d59a8d31 100644
--- a/contrib/hooks/multimail/README.Git
+++ b/contrib/hooks/multimail/README.Git
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ website:
     https://github.com/git-multimail/git-multimail
 
 The version in this directory was obtained from the upstream project
-on Jun 18 2015 and consists of the "git-multimail" subdirectory from
+on July 03 2015 and consists of the "git-multimail" subdirectory from
 revision
 
-    1f0dbb3b60035767889b913df16d9231ecdb8709 refs/tags/1.1.0
+    6d6c9eb62a054143322cfaecde3949189c065b46 refs/tags/1.1.1
 
 Please see the README file in this directory for information about how
 to report bugs or contribute to git-multimail.
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/multimail/git_multimail.py b/contrib/hooks/multimail/git_multimail.py
index 7cb2b36cb4..c06ce7a515 100755
--- a/contrib/hooks/multimail/git_multimail.py
+++ b/contrib/hooks/multimail/git_multimail.py
@@ -1745,14 +1745,20 @@ class SMTPMailer(Mailer):
         self.username = smtpuser
         self.password = smtppass
         try:
+            def call(klass, server, timeout):
+                try:
+                    return klass(server, timeout=timeout)
+                except TypeError:
+                    # Old Python versions do not have timeout= argument.
+                    return klass(server)
             if self.security == 'none':
-                self.smtp = smtplib.SMTP(self.smtpserver, timeout=self.smtpservertimeout)
+                self.smtp = call(smtplib.SMTP, self.smtpserver, timeout=self.smtpservertimeout)
             elif self.security == 'ssl':
-                self.smtp = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(self.smtpserver, timeout=self.smtpservertimeout)
+                self.smtp = call(smtplib.SMTP_SSL, self.smtpserver, timeout=self.smtpservertimeout)
             elif self.security == 'tls':
                 if ':' not in self.smtpserver:
                     self.smtpserver += ':587'  # default port for TLS
-                self.smtp = smtplib.SMTP(self.smtpserver, timeout=self.smtpservertimeout)
+                self.smtp = call(smtplib.SMTP, self.smtpserver, timeout=self.smtpservertimeout)
                 self.smtp.ehlo()
                 self.smtp.starttls()
                 self.smtp.ehlo()