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Re: How to change the From: field in bug reports



>> I had some problems when reporting bugs when using a box which is
>> sometimes down (some people here think that W95 is more usable than
>> Debian :-(().
>> I hoped to get my correct E-mail address included in the bug report
>> but setting the EMAIL variable but this fails.
>> 
>> Looking at `man bug' I found the -H option.  Would this do
>> the job right.  Can anybody give me an example for the correct use
>> or point me to some more detailed documentation.
>> 
>> It's a little bit hard to "test bug-reports" without confusing
>> the maintainer of the package :-).
>
>bug uses AFAIK the environment variable REPLYTO.
>(or is it EMAIL?)

It used /etc/mailname last time I did an strace on it...

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