[Reportbug-maint] Bug#736214: reportbug: SMTP transmission issues can cause complete loss of bug report

Eduard Bloch edi at gmx.de
Mon Jul 28 17:04:35 UTC 2014


Hallo,
* Julius Seemayer [Thu, May 01 2014, 03:29:45PM]:

> I can confirm this bug,  at least parts of it.  If something goes wrong on the
> 'send via mail' part,  it is not possible to recover the bug report.   This is
...
> This  should be fixed as soon as possible,  at least keep the /tmp/reportbug-*
> file containing the report and point the user to them.

Same for me. Please do something about it! It should keep the reports in
a safe location until the user decide to destroy them. Maybe in a new
directory, like in $HOME/.reportbugstore/reportbug-* files?

Regards,
Eduard.



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