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and subject line Re: please check for a working smtphost before writing
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regarding reportbug: configure exim4 or other MTA correctly
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: reportbug
Version: 3.39-0.1
Severity: wishlist
reportbug isn't very useful if you don't have an mta working properly.
Thus, I would like to suggest that reportbug will have some kind of a mechanism
to check
that the user's mta is actually configured and working by sending an empty bug
report.
If this doesn't succeed reportbug should aid the user to configure his MTA.
This is espcially true to users who don't have their own mail server but would
like to
use services such as yahoo! mail or gmail with exim.
I hope someone will agree with me on this.
Cheerio,
Oz.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="urwid"
** /home/ozdeb/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.39-0.1"
mode advanced
ui urwid
realname "Oz N"
email "[email protected]"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.7.11 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.6.6 register and build utility for Pyt
reportbug recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello,
- checking for a working MTA/smtphost is not the reportbug task (how
can we do it reliably? no way) but it's up to the user to configure
reportbug with a working MTA/smtphost (for sure the user sends others
mail using some other programs, so they know what's the correct
value).
- as a possible smtphost, we now provide 'reportbug.debian.org'
listening port '587' that avoids the ISP blocks on port 25.
That said, those 2 bugs can be closed.
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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