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Re: reportbug defaults



* Marco d'Itri:

> On May 16, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
>
>> Except that many ISPs now block outbound port 25 (at least on
>> consumer-level service), except for what is relayed through their mail
>> servers.

> Agreed. It's not reasonable to expect that port 25 connections from
> large consumer ISPs will work.  reportbug should use port 587
> instead (see RFC2476 for details).

It would be a gross violation of the letter (okay, just a SHOULD) or
the spirit of RFC 2476 (or its successor, whose number I forgot).

In order to make it really work. you'd have to submit it over 80/TCP
anyway. 8->



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