Re: Fixing report-emacs-bug

[David Reitter]

On 4 Jul 2005, at 16:16, Joakim Verona wrote:

> If mailing doesnt work, emacs could try posting the bug report through
> a web form.

I thought about something like that - actually without a web form,  
but with a CGI script that takes the input via the URL library and  
forwards it to the normal email address. That would be dead simple to  
implement.

I did it via the standard mail client because

a)
> The drawback would be that there would have to be a webserver running
> a mailer script, that would have to be high uptime, and maybe could be
> abused.

.. which would have to be installed, even though we can effectively  
prevent abuse.

b)
the reports sent through the form are not guaranteed to contain a  
decent e-mail return address, which is pretty important for follow-up  
questions. If sent through the e-mail client on the user's machine,  
there will be a correct return address.