From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul R Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:07:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87skvwdztw.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fxs0hrrv.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <4840084C.2020405@gmail.com> <87d4n3ii41.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <48407716.5080704@gmail.com> <874p8fi9op.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <87od6lc1bd.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212396273 9249 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2008 08:44:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Florian Beck To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 02 10:45:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K35fF-0000Ms-OD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:45:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K35eT-0002c7-Oa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K35Nd-0004T1-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K35NV-0004Pd-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49169 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K35NV-0004PC-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:26:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53056) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K35NU-0001nB-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:26:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:48322 helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K353X-00040f-Rb for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K355F-0006XT-IB for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:64003) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K355F-0006XK-5f for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K355D-0007y9-5b for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so957685fgb.30 for ; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:07:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=5DCmXh1P8eYc37oQlbmWd7trpFWndBZg+u4Q9ujU8a0=; b=jIqe91UIb//l3nf3pB14mHD1cZ28HnhMOmK4+OXz/p+EDkl5szhCE7/zXtVkjzxb8ODkY07xyeg6yFwJUgb3et31B7UHYhEC9uN6bqSvV6jjHLI7vChxoUF9QnuJksBSBkRfK6jNgfV4KaHeSGIssrjnos4r91EbXvkdtlysgQc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=Q99jaJTXdArME6GyPD8HBD/Bi6jTeRK0hYmZgr7kTPpHmtkfB5EvadX4+AZHazhsgibF27hZRiEcd1MxFAa4u2Up0qGg6Y7WYAfH0DlscBoRjGAWRFWn/Ny9PeWCzzC+x8jMph8MqIBceeBunZ2ui0zUI8awbardpKvjkwnYsn8= Original-Received: by 10.86.63.19 with SMTP id l19mr5022689fga.60.1212394077122; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ubuT42 ( [82.242.132.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12sm3227963fgb.6.2008.06.02.01.07.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:07:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun\, 01 Jun 2008 20\:38\:44 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98216 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22531 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > We definitely have a problem in this respect. Traditionally on Unix, > sending mail is done via the /usr/sbin/sendmail program, but nowadays > it's very common to have such programs completely misconfigured. > It's fundamentally a bug in the distributions, I believe, but it's not > one that we can expect to see fixed any time soon, so we're going to > have to deal with it. I can't find what prevents us from using sendmail.el, with a default bug-report configuration, i.e. a preconfigured smtp server allowing bug reports. This server ought to be protected against abuse, but this problem is not on the client-side at least. -- Paul