hi olof, On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:47 +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Hi debian devel subscribers, > > A default Etch install has Exim configured for local mail only. > So reportbug mails will end up frozen in a queue somewhere, without > any direct warning to the user. > > I think this is not a good situation. > What do you think about it and what would be a good way to solve it? oy... if that's true, it's indeed not a good thing. imho the real fix for this is the same as the fix for popcon: stop relying on a local MTA and instead use HTTP POST's by default. of course this means we'd need to have small cgi somewhere to act as a POST<->SMTP gateway, but that's not exactly the most complicated thing in the world to put together. maybe we already have one? it's a shame this is coming up now though. sean
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