On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:16:21AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 November 2001 11:45, Tom Allison wrote: > >>Hopefully this is simple. > >>Is there someway to configure the reportbut package to work with a > >>non-local email account? > >>I have a pop account, but don't have local smtp configured to deliver > >>email on the internet. > >> > >>Either I need to reconfigure exim (dpkg-reconfigure exim?), or do > >>something with reportbug.
It's probably easiest to set up mail from your machine. Otherwise, you could use 'reportbug -p' to print the template to standard output, then drop that template into whatever mailer you use and edit and send it from there. > Any way to test this without pissing anybody off? Not really. Even bug reports filed against non-existent packages go to real people these days (I'm one of them) to make sure typos in bug reports don't cause them to be lost. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]