Scripsit Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Henning Makholm wrote:
>> How does sending directly to from reportbug to an ISP's smarthost
>> validate the user's email address better than sending directly from
>> reportbug to a HTTP POST somewhere?
> I'm talking about an HTTP a
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> What about modifying it to work through something like an http POST?
>
> > I'm personally not too terribly interested in implementing an HTTP
> > access method for the BTS, because it makes it more easy f
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
> It blocks *incoming* port 25 traffic for well understood reasons.
Yes, purely commercial reasons.
> I never knew, though that it also blocks all *outgoing* smtp
> traffic except to it's own servers. Maybe to Winbots from emailing
> files back "home"?
Ye
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 22:47 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:44:19 -0500
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Interesting. b.d.o doesn't seem to be answering on port 25 though.
>
> Doesn't your provider block port 25?
>
> $ telnet bugs.debian.org 25
> Trying 140.211
On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:44:19 -0500
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Interesting. b.d.o doesn't seem to be answering on port 25 though.
Doesn't your provider block port 25?
$ telnet bugs.debian.org 25
Trying 140.211.166.43...
Connected to bugs.debian.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sp
Scripsit Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> What about modifying it to work through something like an http POST?
> I'm personally not too terribly interested in implementing an HTTP
> access method for the BTS, because it makes it more easy for bug
> submissions to be sent from people who can n
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:41 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:24 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >> >> On
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:24 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> >> > On the "home desktop" reportbug
* Marco d'Itri:
> On May 16, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Except that many ISPs now block outbound port 25 (at least on
>> consumer-level service), except for what is relayed through their mail
>> servers.
> Agreed. It's not reasonable to expect that port 25 connections fr
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:24 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send
> >> > email
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > reportbug sends mail to wherever it is configured; the default
> > setup should be to send mail to bugs.debian.org, not the ISP's
> > smtp server, since that can't be known in advance. [I don't know
> > if this is the default
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send
>> > email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing,
>> > because,
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send
> > email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing,
> > because, for a long time, reportbug did not have that fe
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:20 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > reportbug sends mail to wherever it is configured; the default setup
> > should be to send mail to bugs.debian.org, not the ISP's smtp server,
> > since that can't be known in advance. [I don't know if this
On May 16, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Except that many ISPs now block outbound port 25 (at least on
> consumer-level service), except for what is relayed through their mail
> servers.
Agreed. It's not reasonable to expect that port 25 connections from
large consumer ISPs wil
Don Armstrong wrote:
>
> reportbug sends mail to wherever it is configured; the default setup
> should be to send mail to bugs.debian.org, not the ISP's smtp server,
> since that can't be known in advance. [I don't know if this is the
> default now, but it should be the default.]
>
Except that m
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send
> email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing,
> because, for a long time, reportbug did not have that feature, and
> people who don't know how to configure MTAs were no
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