[Reportbug-maint] Bug#802383: reportbug: If SMTP is incorrectly configured, there's no way to save your bug and try again

[David Glover-Aoki]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.6.5
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

If your SMTP settings are incorrectly configured, such that reportbug cannot
send mail (for example, the wrong port is selected), then there's no way to
save the details of the bug you have entered. After the connection fails, you
are presented with the question "Do you want to retry" - "Yes" immediately
retries with no other options, and "No" results in "Press enter to exit" with
no other options.

There should be a way to either save your bug and then reload it after fixing
your SMTP settings, or else adjust your SMTP settings and try again, without
exiting.



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="gtk2"

** /home/lion/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.6.5"
mode standard
ui gtk2
email "zqu at david.gloveraoki.net"
smtphost "mail.messagingengine.com:587"
smtpuser "davidga at fastmail.com"
smtppasswd <omitted>
smtptls

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0.10.2
ii  python            2.7.9-1
ii  python-reportbug  6.6.5
pn  python:any        <none>

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
pn  debsums                                    <none>
pn  dlocate                                    <none>
pn  emacs23-bin-common | emacs24-bin-common    <none>
ii  exim4                                      4.86-3
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.86-3
ii  file                                       1:5.25-2
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.19-5
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-4
pn  python-gtkspell                            <none>
pn  python-urwid                               <none>
ii  python-vte                                 1:0.28.2-5
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0.10.2
ii  python-debian     0.1.27
ii  python-debianbts  2.4
pn  python:any        <none>

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information