On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 18:53 +0100, Brian wrote: > There is no need to use GMail, a mailserver on the machine or an SMTP > host. The novice operating mode of 'reportbug' has in its prompts: > > Do you have a "mail transport agent" (MTA) like Exim, > Postfix or SSMTP configured on this computer to send > mail to the Internet? [y|N|q|?]? n > > Please enter the name of your SMTP host. Usually it's > called something like "mail.example.org" or "smtp.example.org". > If you need to use a different port than default, use the > <host>:<port> alternative format. > > Just press ENTER if you don't have one or don't know, and so > a Debian SMTP host will be used. > > ~/.reportbugrc will have 'smtp reportbug.debian.org' in the file if > ENTER is pressed. > > Not exactly a gotcha.
Wow, did not know that, very handy! -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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