[Reportbug-maint] Bug#769055: reportbug: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Brian,

> Not only did it crash, but there doesn't seem to be any sign of the temp
> file any more, so I had to retype the bug report :-(

at first look it seems exactly the temp file is not there, hence the crash.

Are you able to reproduce it or was it just a one-off?

> It would appear to be that outfile is None (not sure I understand why),
> however the condition gets satisfied if a MTA is not installed or is
> smtphost is defined.

In my setup I have smtphost set, and it works, so it smells like
something else got in the middle.

Regards,
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