On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 05:10:37AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Marc Haber wrote:
> > From where does reportbug obtain that information? How does it cope
> > with corporate installations where the only means of submitting mail
> > from a regular workstation is Notes or MAPI?
>
> Let's not make perfect the enemy of the good; there are all kinds of
> setups where you can make arbitrary communication with the outside
> world very difficult. reportbug can handle more and more of them, but
> it's impossible for it to handle them all.
Agreed. Still, I believe we might agree on the fact that the ability of
submitting reports via HTTP would be quite a good compromise, even more
so if http_proxy or equivalent variables are supported. That's why I've
reported #590214. Would you like a similar (actually, blocker) feature
request on debbugs?
Cheers.
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