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Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently
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Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:56:41 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, Jun 02 2008, Paul R wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> We definitely have a problem in this respect. Traditionally on Unix,
>> sending mail is done via the /usr/sbin/sendmail program, but nowadays
>> it's very common to have such programs completely misconfigured.
>> It's fundamentally a bug in the distributions, I believe, but it's not
>> one that we can expect to see fixed any time soon, so we're going to
>> have to deal with it.
>
> I can't find what prevents us from using sendmail.el, with a default
> bug-report configuration, i.e. a preconfigured smtp server allowing
> bug reports.
[So you mean `smtpmail.el'?] AFAIK many (corporate) firewall
configurations (and ISPs) won't allow outgoing connections from
clients on port 25.
Instead of this, we should better work on a simple web based bug
submission form which can be sent to the bugtracker via Emacs' url
library (or emacs-w3m?).
Bye, Reiner.
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- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, (continued)
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Florian Beck, 2008/06/06
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/07
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Reiner Steib, 2008/06/07
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Kevin Rodgers, 2008/06/13
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/13
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- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently,
Reiner Steib <=
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Paul R, 2008/06/02
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, tomas, 2008/06/03
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/05
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, tomas, 2008/06/05
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Don Armstrong, 2008/06/05
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/05