Re: How to use reportbug
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:47 AM, dAgeCKo <dagecko@free.fr> wrote:
>
> I wanted to use reportbug to report several bugs.
> But when reportbug does not crash, it does not send the bug report via
> email.
>
> Could someone explain me how to configure it so that it can effectively send
> the report ?
>
> I configure it with standard, gtk2, I say yes when asked if reportbug will
> often have direct internet access, I use this email adress (which works fine
> with Icedove), I say I don't have any MTA, I use smtp.free.fr as the smtp
> host and dagecko as the user name; no encryption, no proxy (it is the exact
> same configuration that for Icedove).
>
> When it doesn't crash after the found reported bugs, it fails to send the
> email. It says server AUTH not supported by the server.
>
> It is the same if I uncomment the last 3 options in ~/.reportbugrc.
email "email_address"
realname "name"
editor vi
mode standard
ui text
no-cc
no-check-uid
smtphost reportbug.debian.org
The above is what I use. Change the first two lines (and the third if
you don't want to use vi) and try again.
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