Re: Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:14:23PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 20061110011902.GI21192@volo.donarmstrong.com> don@debian.org writes:
> >Reportbug installs who do not have exim installed correctly should be
> >using reportbug's built-in SMTP handling abilities and either relaying
> >to their upstream smtp server or bugs.debian.org; the latter as the
> >default if nothing else is selected.
> >
> >Since this is the way that reportbug works currently, I really don't
> >see the problem. [Perhaps the only bug here is that it even asks
> >whether to use the local smtp server in the "novice" case.]
>
> bugs.debian.org isn't always willing to accept mail. Besides the
> times like last night when a denial of service attack[0] made it so no
> mail was accepted for half an hour, spohr also uses greylisting. I
> don't think reportbug does mail queueing.
Best idea would be reporting bugs via an http[s]-based API.
Greetings
Marc
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