Re: Reporting Bug

From	Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Reporting Bug
Date	2015-10-22 21:00 +0200
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On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 18:53 +0100, Brian wrote:
> There is no need to use GMail, a mailserver on the machine or an SMTP
> host. The novice operating mode of 'reportbug' has in its prompts:
> 
>    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|?]? n
> 
>    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.
> 
> ~/.reportbugrc will have 'smtp reportbug.debian.org' in the file if
> ENTER is pressed.
> 
> Not exactly a gotcha.

Wow, did not know that, very handy!

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Sven Arvidsson
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