Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

["Carl Fürstenberg" <azatoth@gmail.com>]

On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> port 25 blocking may be circumvented using ssl(tls) access to smtp
> server like one offered by gmail. Read the manpage of reportbug for its
> command line options.
>
> Many ISP now requests to use non-port 25 for outgoing mail.  That may
> be accomodated by specifying port on command line of report bug.
>
> If you are totally isolated from IP network, you can still use reportbug
> with e.g. -M option to start mutt.  Then before sending the mail text
> created, save mail text to a file and move it to other machine to send
> it by mail or web mail.

That might be true, but wonder how many "non super technical" people
are able to do a stunt like that :)

I remember the first time I was using the reportbug, and I really
didn't know what to do when the email was just displayed in the
terminal.

/Carl