[Reportbug-maint] Bug#626930: reportbug: bug report silently discarded, after postfix error

[Stefan Monnier]

> I've just tried to replicate this bug replacing sendmail with a script
> that simply does "exit 1" and that's what I got:

As mentioned, I think the exit code was 75.

> Report will be sent to Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
> Submit this report on checkgmail (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|s|?]?
> Sending message via /usr/sbin/sendmail...
> Original write failed, wrote bug report to
> /tmp/reportbug-checkgmail-20110816-398-lrFVxO

while I find the above fairly discrete (not silent, but not hard to
overlook either), my use case was with the Gtk UI.

I think we need a prompt here (e.g. asking to fallback on some other
sending method).


        Stefan