Package: reportbug Version: 7.1.7 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I tried submitting a bug report but reportbug couldn't contact my smtp server (mail.yahoo.com) * What was the outcome of this action? The gtk interface showed a yes/no dialog with the message "[error message] Do you want to retry (or else save the report and exit)? The wording of this dialog is confusing and doesn't give any indication of where the report might be saved or what to do with it. * What outcome did you expect instead? The option to reconfigure the MTA setting, or fall back to the debian provided SMTP service (at bugs.debian.org?) would be better. Failing that, there should at least be a more helpful message: one that doesn't imply a non yes/no answer to a yes/no dialog, one that indicates where the saved bug report can be found and some hint toward what to do with it. I note that there are several bug reports indicating there's no option to get reportbug to continue a saved bug report (#328531, #702107, #712066) which should probably be merged and/or fixed... Ironically, I actually hit this bug again trying to submit *this* bug report, so I'vefound the bug report saved in /tmp/ and am sending it via my MUA, so pleaseforgive me if I've broken the formatting in some way. Cheers & God bless Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="gtk2" ** /home/sammy/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "7.1.7" mode advanced ui text realname "Sam \"SammyTheSnake\" Penny" email "xanthrax...@yahoo.co.uk" no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: xanthrax...@yahoo.co.uk" smtphost reportbug.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.4.6 ii python3 3.5.3-3 ii python3-reportbug 7.1.7 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> pn debconf-utils <none> pn debsums <none> pn dlocate <none> pn emacs24-bin-common | emacs25-bin-common <none> ii exim4 4.89-3 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.89-3 ii file 1:5.30-1 ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.22.16-1 ii gir1.2-vte-2.91 0.46.1-1 ii gnupg 2.1.18-8 ii python3-gi 3.22.0-2+b1 ii python3-gi-cairo 3.22.0-2+b1 pn python3-gtkspellcheck <none> pn python3-urwid <none> ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.4.6 ii file 1:5.30-1 ii python3 3.5.3-3 ii python3-debian 0.1.30 ii python3-debianbts 2.6.1 ii python3-requests 2.12.4-1 python3-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information