def send_mailnotification(self, item):
        pywikibot.output(u'Sending mail "%s" to "%s" as notification!' % (error_mail[1], error_mail[0]))
        usr = userlib.User(pywikibot.getSite(), error_mail[0])
        # JIRA: DRTRIGON-87; re-try loop, output error info
        count = 3
        while count:
                count -= 1
                try:
                        if usr.sendMail(subject=error_mail[1], text=item):      # 'item' should be unicode!
                                return
                except:  # break exception handling recursion
                        pywikibot.output(u'!!! %s' % str(sys.exc_info()))
        pywikibot.output(u'!!! WARNING: mail could not be sent!')