[Reportbug-maint] Bug#502866: reportbug cannot work without local MTA or remote smtp host

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Lars,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 19:00, Lars Noodén <lars at umich.edu> wrote:
> Sandro Tosi wrote:
>
>> can you be more verbose about POST HTTP bug submission? I can't get your point.
>
> The suggestion is that reportbug have an option to submit a bug without
> requiring that the user either set up an MTA or have to hunt for an
> external one.
>
> One way would be to have some kind of form-to-mail gateway that
> reportbug can use to pass on the data it collected from the user.  That
> way only web traffic (HTTP) need travel out from the Debian host.

Do you know any of such services? I don't... If you want this, then
please fill a wishlist bugreport on debbugs asking for such an
interface, then get back to us. As you formulated this bug, we cannot
solve it (but I won't close it yet, just to track the request)

> Wget is part of busybox and basic debian:

No need of wget to accomplish this: python has planty of ways to POST
data on a URL.

Sandro

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