[Reportbug-maint] Bug#502866: reportbug cannot work without local MTA or remote smtp host

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Lars,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 20:06, Lars Noodén <lars at umich.edu> wrote:
> Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> Do you know any of such services?
>
> You can't use this one but you can make one like it:
>        http://www.umich.edu/~umweb/how-to/cgi-scripts/htmail.html
> we've had it since 1994 or so...
>
> They're dead simple to write.
>
>>  I don't...
>
> Hmm.  Are you really, really sure?

ehm, yes, I didn't know any of them before your reply (but I have to
admin I didn't search 'em either :) ).

> I'll try again.  The wish is this:
>
> reportbug gets some data from the system and the user.
> report bug transfers this data using web technology.
> said web technology transfers this data into the existing system
>        -- all without using or configuring mail
>
> once the report is into the regular system it then operates as normal
> (mail and all)

Again, this is something that needs to be done by the bugs.d.o system,
not by reportbug. Once this is available as a public, stable service
of bugs.d.o, we can then add this feature to reportbug.

Anyhow, each person has an ISP (or another email provider) that
provides an SMTP host to reply local email (and there exists even open
replay server on the web), the user already needs to know to configure
its MUA of choice (and usually easily retriavable). So, the request
for a local MTA or a remote SMTP host is not blocking that much IMHO.

We (reportbug maints) don't have a web infrastructure (nor I'm willing
to create one, even if I'm thinking about a web frontend for
reportbug, but that's another story) we can leverage for your request.

>> If you want this, then
>> please fill a wishlist bugreport on debbugs asking for such an
>
> I can do that but I'll need the URL for debbugs, please.

Follow this[1] against pseudo-package[2] bugs.debian.org, or contact
owner at bugs.debian.org

[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
[2] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages

>>> Wget is part of busybox and basic debian:
>>
>> No need of wget to accomplish this: python has planty of ways to POST
>> data on a URL.
>
> Ok. Python works too.  So does Perl.  Whatever lets us avoid messing
> with MTAs.

Well, I say python because reportbug is written in Python :)

Kindly,
Sandro

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