Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue

[Don Armstrong]

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, Blars Blarson wrote:
> bugs.debian.org isn't always willing to accept mail. Besides the
> times like last night when a denial of service attack[0] made it so
> no mail was accepted for half an hour, spohr also uses greylisting.
> I don't think reportbug does mail queueing.
>
> Also, some ISPs do not allow direct outgoing mail connections.

The ideal case is to use the ISP's smtp server, but as that can't be
guessed, b.d.o is the best default. I hope that reportbug at least
reports errors if it is unable to properly send a mail via smtp to
b.d.o, so the end user would know that there was a problem, and know
to retry.[1]


Don Armstrong
 
1: Indeed, this class of problem exists for any method of getting bug
reports to the bts.
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