Subject: reportbug: sending by email fails, misc. issues Package: reportbug Version: 4.12.6 Severity: normal
when choosing the automatic debian smtp send email option, email sending fails. when choosing my ISPs smtp address, UID, p/w, etc., email sending fails both the cancel and continue buttons have "C" underlined. this usually means a user can hold ctrl and hit C rather than having to mouse click the button. so those shortcuts fail, but clicking on them works. This package is a great idea and I really appreciate it, but if you want the majority of desktop users to use it you have to simplify it a little more. Using abbreviations such as MTA and MUA will just confuse the average user and cause them to give up. Of course this will mean Debian will have fewer bug reports to squash. The majority of desktop users will get frustrated by reportbug and the bug reporting process and just give up and so Debian will never hear from most of them when they have a problem. If there are too many of these bugs/problems, they'll just give up and go back to widows and mac. Thanks again for a great tool, hope you can make it a little easier and more reliable for us noobs, Jim -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="gtk2" ** /home/j/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "4.12.6" mode novice ui gtk2 realname "jim berry" email "[email protected]" smtphost "smtp-server.cfl.rr.com" smtpuser "uu110" -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-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/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.8.11.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-reportbug 4.12.6 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available) pn debsums <none> (no description available) pn dlocate <none> (no description available) pn emacs22-bin-common | emacs23 <none> (no description available) ii exim4 4.72-6 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tra 4.72-6 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available) pn python-urwid <none> (no description available) ii python-vte 1:0.24.3-2 Python bindings for the VTE widget ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1-1 desktop integration utilities from -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
