On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 02:49:27PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On 10/12/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >this is just a heads-up from the Debian exim4 maintainer team: We have > >recently uploaded a version of exim4 to unstable that does not ask any > >questions during a d-i run. exim4 will thus default to a "local mail > >only" setup on most new installations. > > > >Thus, if reportbug delivers new reports to /usr/lib/sendmail or to > >localhost via SMTP, the reports are unlikely to be actually sent. > > > >If reportbug can detect this situation, I suggest that it does so. > > > >We are willing to cooperate to allow this. > > Presumably reportbug could get the debconf setting for the installation > type.
If that's allowed. Otherwise, we can give you an "API" to query exim4 for its configuration. otoh, that one is already there, just do exim4 -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] and check the results. > Mind you, I'm not at all convinced that this is sane default behavior > for a MTA; Neither am I, but the d-i people have been pressing very hard that exim4 stops asking technical questions during installation, and we had to settle for a default. > it certainly throws 20+ years of expected Unix behavior out the > window. Agreed, but things have changed. The majority of our installations is nowadays done on consumer-grade internet connections which might have their port 25 filtered on ISP side, transparently proxied to a smarthost which requires authentication or be listed in a DUL type blocking list. > Ugh. I think the best default behavior for reportbug now would be to > connect directly via SMTP to bugs.debian.org, even though that could > lead to some subtle breakage here and there. Yes, considering an ISP with tcp/25 filtered. > Realistically I think the eventual way out has to be some sort of > HTTP-based submission to debbugs that injects things directly into the > BTS and returns a report number immediately; it certainly would make > my life easier. Sounds like the way that'll most likely work. For a few years, before filters with http state/content functions are widely deployed. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
