Re: reportbug reports are not sent

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Joseph Herlant <herlantj@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Reportbug sends mails via your local mail server by default.
> 
> Pretty sure this isn't true any more, is it?  I think it's now using the
> submit port and sending mail directly to a Debian host.  (Of course,
> that's unstable/testing; stable may be too old for that.)

Indeed, that is (at last) the default:

$ reportbug --version
reportbug 6.5.1

$ reportbug 
[...]
Do you have a "mail transport agent" (MTA) like Exim, Postfix or SSMTP 
configured on this
computer to send mail to the Internet? [y|N|q|?]? 

Please enter the name of your SMTP host. Usually it's called something like 
"mail.example.org" 
or "smtp.example.org". If you need to use a different port than default, use 
the <host>:<port>
alternative format. Just press ENTER if you don't have one or don't know, 
and so a Debian SMTP
host will be used.

cheers
Stuart


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