Package: reportbug Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
On Sb, 24 iul 10, 18:03:04, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/24/2010 02:06 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > [snip] > > > >And then there is the (nowadays perceived) problem that reportbug needs a > >working MTA setup or at least outgoing traffic on port 25/587. Both ports are > >blocked on almost all my machines, so I still have not much bothered with > >reportbug. (I'd use it for when a maintainer tells me to use it as it will > >collect some information automatically, but thats it.) > > > > For at least a couple of years, reportbug has been able to send mail > via the user's ISP's smtp server, just like he sends "regular" > email. > > I'd bet that, given the correct ~/.reportbugrc options, you can also > use smtp.google.com. Of course you can, but it still is much more convenient to use reportbug.debian.org instead. Maybe reportbug could offer preconfigured settings in case the user has an e-mail address from one of the known providers that allow SMTP? Example text: --- Do you want to use <provider>'s SMTP server for sending reports? Y/n The known SMTP server for <provider> is <smtp-server>. Press Enter if this is the correct server (or you don't know), otherwise please specify the correct server. Please enter the password for your <provider> account. The password will be stored in the ~/.reportbugrc file. If you don't want that just press Enter and reportbug will ask for the password every time you want to send a report: --- Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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