Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> > The only advantage of this would be for systems that firewall outgoing
> > mail conections but allow http or have a http proxy but no smarthost.
>
> There are a lot of ISPs that do this. My ISP does this so I have to
> send mail via SSH tunnel or webmail.
I often use the -o option of reportbug and scp the file to somewhere I can
send mail.
It would be nice if there was a program that could take the output of
reportbug -o and send it via email. Using cut/paste wastes a little time.
Another option is to use ssh port redirection to tunnel SMTP over ssh.
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