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Bug#933004: marked as done (reportbug should default to smtphost reportbug.debian.org)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #933004,
regarding reportbug should default to smtphost reportbug.debian.org
to be marked as done.

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Package: reportbug
Version: 7.5.2

While reportbug-gtk will prompt the user about MTAs vs using a
smtphost (and offer reportbug.debian.org as an option), plain
reportbug will not.  I was attempting to guide a friend of mine
through reportbug'ing a kernel issue using reportbug while he was
using ssh to the machine in question, and it took some time to realize
that as he had no MTA configured, nothing had actually happened.

I suspect many users are often in the situation of wanting to
reportbug about issues soon after installing the system.  Probably,
reportbug should default to using a known-to-work SMTP host.

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Correct, i dont believe there's anything to fix here, closing

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 9:03 AM Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@web.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:34:08 -0400 Chris Danis <cdanis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > While reportbug-gtk will prompt the user about MTAs vs using a
> > smtphost (and offer reportbug.debian.org as an option), plain
> > reportbug will not.
>
> Can you check if you had a .reportbugrc around already when you tried
> the text ui? The configuration prompts are independent from the UI used,
> but you normally only get them when running reportbug for the first time.
>
> You can also call reportbug --configure to get the prompts again and
> overwrite your previous configuration.
>
> > I suspect many users are often in the situation of wanting to
> > reportbug about issues soon after installing the system.  Probably,
> > reportbug should default to using a known-to-work SMTP host.
>
> It already does that in my tests.
>
> So thanks for your report, but I think there is no bug here.
>


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