Package: reportbug Version: 4.12.6 Severity: wishlist
It's foolish to require a bug submitter to supply an email address. One who submits a bug report may or may not be interested in tracking the bug via email. And submitters may (quite rightly) be concerned about disclosure of their email address. An attempt at circumventing the problem is to use a bogus address like "n...@reply.net". However, the malconfigured mail server responds inappropriately: May 19 05:32:49 local postfix/smtp[22384]: certificate verification failed for bugs-master.debian.org[140.211.15.34]:25: untrusted issuer /C=NA/ST=NA/L=Ankh Morpork/O=Debian SMTP/OU=Debian SMTP CA/CN=Debian SMTP CA/emailAddress=hostmas...@puppet.debian.org and after further attempts the reply becomes: May 19 11:32:42 local postfix/smtp[2278]: C11812005FD: to=<sub...@bugs.debian.org>, relay=bugs-master.debian.org[140.211.15.34]:25, delay=7328, delays=7307/0.33/21/0, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host bugs-master.debian.org[140.211.15.34] refused to talk to me: 421 busoni.debian.org: Too much load; please try again later) An ugly circumvention that works is to supply a genuine email address that leads back to a server that blackholes the replies. This is a poor option to be left with though, because someone else following the bug might attempt to compose a private message to the submitter. Such a message would be blackholed, and both the sender and recipient are unaware. The reportbug package may not have control over the malconfigured mail server, but it need not force entry of an email address. An email address could be internally designated for the purpose of getting reports through the mail server. In any case, users should not be required to give an email address to the reportbug client. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="emacs" INTERFACE="text" ** $HOME/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "4.12.6" mode novice ui text realname "anonymous coward" email "marc.carter-ceqo...@cool.fr.nf" -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-reportbug 4.12.6 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available) pn debsums <none> (no description available) pn dlocate <none> (no description available) ii emacs23-bin-common 23.2+1-7 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii file 5.04-5+squeeze2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii postfix [mail-transp 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 High-performance mail transport ag ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available) pn python-urwid <none> (no description available) ii python-vte 1:0.24.3-3 Python bindings for the VTE widget ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org