Hi, aprekates wrote: > But reportbug can send emails to BTS . > How does it do that ?
In principle, i'd say by the SMTP internet protocol. man 1 reportbug talks of /usr/bin/sendmail. I guess the logic can be inspected at https://sources.debian.org/src/reportbug/7.5.1/reportbug/submit.py/#L202 In line 334 it starts an MTA and connects it by a pipe. Alternatively, in line 353 it begins to talk SMTP to the host whose address is in variable smtphost. This is done via a python class named "smtplib". It should be possibile to distinguish the code paths used in your local situation by the messages: ewrite("Sending message via %s...\n", mta) ewrite("Connecting to %s via SMTP...\n", smtphost) Looking at https://packages.debian.org/unstable/reportbug it may well be that it has found one of the suggested mail transport agents. Have a nice day :) Thomas
