[Reportbug-maint] Bug#551983: marked as done (reportbug: how to send report prepared on other host)

[Thiemo Nagel]

reopen 551983
thanks

Dear Sandro,

please consider leaving the bug open until somebody volunteers to work 
on it, for the following reason:

reportbug is a tool that is supposed to be used by newbies (among 
others).  They will not be aware of the method of sending the file 
through sendmail (also this method seems to work only with certain 
sendmail implementations).

Therefore, I suggest to either
a) add functionality to reportbug to send a report-stored-in-a-file or
b) have a fool-proof description in the man page on how to use system 
tools to send the report-stored-in-a-file.

Personally, I'd prefer alternative a) because of symmetry (same program 
used to store and to load) and because I assume it'll be more fool-proof 
than alternative b).

Thank you for your time!

Thiemo


P.S.:  I tried three random Debian installations, your method worked on 
none of them:

$ /usr/sbin/sendmail < reportbug-iceweasel-20091207-16324-W2GbLH
sendmail: No recipients supplied - mail will not be sent

$ /usr/sbin/sendmail < reportbug-iceweasel-20091207-16324-W2GbLH
sendmail: fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on the command 
line or via the -t option
postdrop: warning: stdin: unexpected EOF in data, record type 78 length 80
postdrop: fatal: uid=1008: malformed input

$ /usr/sbin/sendmail < reportbug-iceweasel-20091207-16324-W2GbLH
Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents,
not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.