[Reportbug-maint] Bug#612091: reportbug: fails to send email

[Sandro Tosi]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 19:43, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.12.6
> Severity: important
>
> When run as an ordinary user, reportbug fails to send an email to the Debian
> tracking system.  It creates the email, but the send fails with the folowing
> output:
>
> Sending message via /usr/bin/mail...

default mta is sendmail, but in your configuration it's not set, so it
should use sendmail: what are you doing? by any chance, have you
messed up your machine?

> /usr/bin/mail: invalid option -- 'o'
>
> usage: mail [-dEIinv] [-a header] [-b bcc-addr] [-c cc-addr] [-s subject]
> to-addr ...
>
>            [-- sendmail-options ...]
>
>       mail [-dEIiNnv] -f [name]
>
>       mail [-dEIiNnv] [-u user]
>
> Original write failed, wrote bug report to
> /var/tmp/reportbug-reportbug-20110205-19020-3W3kR1

sendmail supports -o options, mail maybe not, so it's either you
running reportbug in some weird way or something is wrong on your
machine.

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