Package: monkeysign Version: 1.0 Severity: normal monkeyscan doesn't currently cope well with systems with no mta installed. The package should probably at least Suggest: mail-transport-agent, and if /usr/sbin/sendmail isn't found, it should report the error through the GUI instead of dumping a backtrace to stderr.
But for many folks, running or maintaining a local MTA is not possible, which limits the adoption of monkeysign, especially for regular users, who it could potentially seriously help. It occurs to me that in the absence of a local MTA, monkeysign could prompt the user for their e-mail SMTP configuration, storing the connection parameters for future use (but not storing the password, of course). Perhaps the tool could rely on something like python-twisted-mail's SMTP client to do the submission? But even this is probably more complex than we want for most users. To streamline things for a lot of people, we could make use of thunderbird's Autoconfig standard [0] [1], applying it against the e-mail address in the sender's primary user ID and extracting the outgoingServer info to pre-configure the outbound SMTP parameters. [0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration/FileFormat/HowTo Getting this to work properly probably also means handling with the situation where the SMTP server is not available, dies in the middle of transmission, etc. this is all a pain to do, and i don't actually expect or want monkeysign to recapitulate an MTA. But it would be really nice to offer at least the baseline of "if you have an outbound SMTP server, and it is online, and we can talk to it right now, we will send the mail through it". Regards, --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.11-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages monkeysign depends on: ii gnupg 1.4.14-1.2 ii python 2.7.5-4 Versions of packages monkeysign recommends: ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3+b1 ii python-qrencode 1.01-2+b1 ii python-zbar 0.10+doc-9+b1 ii python-zbarpygtk 0.10+doc-9+b1 monkeysign suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
