[Reportbug-maint] Bug#775018: reportbug: feature request: test email setup

[Sam Halliday]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.6.3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I think it would be good if reportbug had the ability to send a test
email to a dead account (or user configurable) to test configuration.

I was following the instructions here

  https://wiki.debian.org/reportbug#Using_GMail.27s_SMTP_Server

to use gmail for reportbug and, when completed, I wanted to know if
I'd set it up correctly.

Reading the man pages and googling, I could not find any "send test
email" mode that seemed appropriate (the test mode is clearly marked
just for maintainers).

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="emacs -nw"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/fommil/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.6.3"
mode standard
ui text
email "sam.halliday at gmail.com"
smtphost "smtp.gmail.com:587"
smtpuser "sam.halliday at gmail.com"
smtptls

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0.9.5
ii  python            2.7.8-2
ii  python-reportbug  6.6.3
pn  python:any        <none>

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
pn  debsums                                    <none>
pn  dlocate                                    <none>
ii  emacs24-bin-common                         24.4+1-4.1
ii  exim4                                      4.84-6
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.84-6
ii  file                                       1:5.20-2
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.18-6
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-4
pn  python-gtkspell                            <none>
pn  python-urwid                               <none>
pn  python-vte                                 <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.1

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0.9.5
ii  python-debian     0.1.25
ii  python-debianbts  1.12
pn  python:any        <none>

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information