# Bcc: control retitle 468549 please check for a working smtphost before writing .reportbugrc severity 468549 wishlist thanks
On 08/04/22 10:16 +0300, Joona Kiiski said ...
> Okay, now it all becomes clear. It seems that many ISPs are nowadays blocking
> all outgoing connections to SMTP servers (except their own) and this was
> exactly the case with my problem. Changing the smtphost to my ISP's smtphost
> fixed the problem.
Thanks for investigating and replying back.
> Solutions?:
> * Should reportbug wizard check if it can connect to bugs.debian.org SMTP-port
> before writing .reportbugrc, if not then DEMAND SMTP-host.
>
> * Even better solution might(?) be to run fallback SMTP-server in
> bugs.debian.org
> using some non-standard port. If reportbug fails to connect port 25, it
> could then
> try that fallback port.
I am afraid these options are either kludgy or not easily implementable. The
error message that you get when reportbug is not able to send mail ("SMTP send
failure") is a give-away, and I would be inclined to mark this as wontfix if I
were the maintainer.
Cheers,
Giridhar
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