In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Reportbug installs who do not have exim installed correctly should be
>using reportbug's built-in SMTP handling abilities and either relaying
>to their upstream smtp server or bugs.debian.org; the latter as the
>default if nothing else is selected.
>
>Since this is the way that reportbug works currently, I really don't
>see the problem. [Perhaps the only bug here is that it even asks
>whether to use the local smtp server in the "novice" case.]
bugs.debian.org isn't always willing to accept mail. Besides the
times like last night when a denial of service attack[0] made it so no
mail was accepted for half an hour, spohr also uses greylisting. I
don't think reportbug does mail queueing.
Also, some ISPs do not allow direct outgoing mail connections.
[0] Load average over 400 for a while, 25% idle time, 50% wait. The
only unusuall thing running was many exim4 and procmail processes
starting and completing quickly. My guess is spammers tried sending
so much spam at once that nothing got through.
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