Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:41 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:24 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> 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, for a long time, reportbug did not have that feature, and
> >> >> > people who don't know how to configure MTAs were not able to send
> >> >> > bug reports.
> >> >>
> >> >> 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.]
> >> >
> >> > bugs.d.o is the *destination*, not the journey.
> >>
> >> Isn't the default that reprotbug asks on the first run whether to use
> >> the local fetchmail / ISPs smpt or send to bugs.d.o now?
> >
> > OK, I'm confused.
> >
> > Isn't the question "How does the report gets from "the computer"
> > to bugs.d.o?"?
> >
> > sendmail or smtp library, right?
>
> If you run "reportbug" without arguments it asks you questions on the
> first run:
>
> | Do you have a "mail transport agent" (MTA) like Exim, Postfix or SSMTP
> | configured on this computer? [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". Just press ENTER if you don't have
> | one or don't know.
> | >
>
> which results in "smtphost bugs.debian.org" in the conffile. Maybe the
> default to the MTA question could be "N" instead.
Interesting. b.d.o doesn't seem to be answering on port 25 though.
I ran this tiny python script and it just sits there:
>>> import smtplib
>>> server = smtplib.SMTP('bugs.debian.org')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/smtplib.py", line 240, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/smtplib.py", line 293, in connect
self.sock.connect(sa)
File "<string>", line 1, in connect
KeyboardInterrupt
> > When I first installed rb, it failed to work, because it wanted
> > to use sendmail, and the only way my PC sent mail to the outside
> > world was using my MUA pointing to smtp.<myisp>.net (because exim
> > was set up for local delivery only).
> >
> > Later on, I tried again, and found that they had added (or made
> > it more clear in "reportbug --configure") the ability to use the
> > user's ISP to transport the email.
>
> Yes, that is a new feature.
And a darned useful one at that...
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