Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[tomas]

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On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:15:31PM +0200, Paul R wrote:
> Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > [So you mean `smtpmail.el'?]  AFAIK many (corporate) firewall
> > configurations (and ISPs) won't allow outgoing connections from
> > clients on port 25.
> 
> That's a serious limitation, indeed.
> 
> > Instead of this, we should better work on a simple web based bug
> > submission form which can be sent to the bugtracker via Emacs' url
> > library (or emacs-w3m?).
> 
> Sending mail through http :)
> In the same spirit, we can make it send mail to an ssl-only smtp
> server listening to 443. This should pass through corporate firewalls.

Or just not tacitly assume that the machine Emacs is running
on is on the 'net (Horrors!).

Maybe the user just wants to generate a bug report, save it on an USB
stick and mail it later. Ask the user, I'd say, then try a couple of
possibilities _if_ she said "dunno", then maybe give up loudly and
offer to save if all those alternatives fail.

Regards
- -- tomás
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