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Ryan Voots <simcop2387@simcop2387.info> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:30 PM Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote: > Sawyer X wrote: > > > There are a couple important considerations here: > > > > > > 1. The current bug reporting process requires a working mailserver and > > the > > > persistence to find out if your bug report actually worked -- they very > > > commonly don't, I had to invent a specific process to ensure my reports > > get > > > through, even being in constant contact with many of the developers in > > IRC. > > > This is not suitable. > > > > AFAIK, Debian's reportbug(1) uses the submission port (587) which > > doesn't require a working mailserver. > > > > Perhaps the perl.org MX (perl.mx.develooper.com) could enable > > port 587 and perlbug can be updated to use it? > > Port 587 is also an SMTP/email port, typically used in cases where you're > expecting authentication before accepting any messages (typically user > mailing agents). Right, but it also works w/o authentication at all. > Debian's report bug script might use this port, but it's doing so as a > mailer itself (check it's source code, it is python but it's pretty easy to > follow). So I'm not sure this would actually accomplish anything. *shrug* We have Net::SMTP in the standard library, might as well teach perlbug to use it: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134253Thread Previous | Thread Next