# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron email delivery and SMTP TLS fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address bugs in cron email delivery, including crashes and incomplete delivery in multi-target scenarios, plus a fix for using implicit TLS on SMTPS port 465.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #56269. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #56269 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-56269`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #47163: bug(cron): multi-target email delivery only sends to first recipient

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#27680: fix(email): use implicit TLS for SMTPS port 465**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#41112`
- **#56269: fix(cron): prevent multi-target delivery loop crash on per-target failure (salvage #47167)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `scripts/release.py`, `tests/cron/test_scheduler.py`
- **#47167: fix(cron): prevent delivery loop crash on multi-target email delivery**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `242c9639a`, `#56269`, `#41112`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #56269 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-01`.
- Subsystem: `cron`