On 8/12/06, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:13:47 -0500
> Subject: Fixed
> According to the original submitter, this bug is fixed.
No way. I'm the original submitter, and I certainly
said nothing about the bug being fixed. Unless you've
done something to verify that the mail goes through,
the bug is certainly not fixed.
My apologies, I misread the report log (confusing someone who had a
very similar problem with you).
There are several ways to fix this:
a. poll the bugs.debian.org web site.
b. do a direct SMTP connection yourself
c. do some other protocol, like FTP or HTTP
d. write a custom protocol for the job
Until you get back a positive response from the
Debian server, you have no idea what happened.
a, c, and d are currently not supported by the Debbugs server (a is
plausible, but you would have to poll for at least 15 minutes as
debbugs does batch processing of the mail queue). b is an option (you
can set smtphost to bugs.debian.org) but breaks cc's to others.
More to the point, this is a general issue with all MUAs that depend
on an MTA to accomplish delivery for them, and (IMHO) loading down
reportbug with functionality that is only necessary to diagnose
people's broken mail systems wouldn't be a very good tradeoff.
You may reopen the report, but it will probably be downgraded and
marked wontfix.
Chris
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