On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send > > email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing, > > because, for a long time, reportbug did not have that feature, and > > people who don't know how to configure MTAs were not able to send > > bug reports. > > reportbug sends mail to wherever it is configured; the default setup > should be to send mail to bugs.debian.org, not the ISP's smtp server, > since that can't be known in advance. [I don't know if this is the > default now, but it should be the default.]
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