Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]
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 is the
> > default now, but it should be the default.]
> >
>
> Except that many ISPs now block outbound port 25 (at least on
> consumer-level service), except for what is relayed through their mail
> servers.
>
> I guess it is a bit of a catch-22.
>
> What about modifying it to work through something like an http POST?
That's what popcon does, I think.
Remember, though, that reportbug *works*, simply and easily, be-
cause it uses the $LANGUAGE smtp library. Why change what works?
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