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Bug#845554: reportbug: Not prompted for password or necessary information when setting up reportbug



On 24 Nov 2016 Nancy Anthracite wrote:

   * What led up to the situation? I configured report bug to use my email
saying that it required TLS, gave it the email but I was not asked for a port
or a password and when I tried to submit the report, it did not ask me for a
password and it timed out.

reportbug does ask for a port - in the question about the smtphost:

|  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.

I think having it integrated in this question is a good idea, because most people do not need a non-default port and non-technical users would get more confused if we added an extra question about the port.

Therefore I believe this issue is more a user support issue than a bug in reportbug. Closing this bug accordingly.


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