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My email client only tells me that my local MTA has accepted it, which tells me nothing about whether Debian has accepted it, let alone whether the BTS accepted
by rhizome 9y ago
My email client only tells me that my local MTA has accepted it, which tells me nothing about whether Debian has accepted it, let alone whether the BTS accepted the format of my email,
Is this hard to make reliable? Do other Debian contributors have these problems?
I rarely hear of people having to babysit sending email, and by far it most frequently comes from inside my head when I'm mucking about with my server config, but aside from that email just works.
- geofft 9y ago> Is this hard to make reliable? Do other Debian contributors have these problems? My impression is that othrr Debian contributors do one of three things: 1. Use the 'bts' utility, which creates an email message for you in the right format, which adds something resembling client-side validation (with the usual races and uncertainties of client-side validation), and last I checked still depends on your local system being able to send mail as your actual email account 2. Use Debian for so long that the BTS syntax is second nature (this is almost where I am) 3. Not interact with the BTS, at least other than submitting bugs via the 'reportbug' utility GitHub is miles ahead in usability by people who aren't already familiar with the system.