[Reportbug-maint] Bug#586680: Misnamed option --tls/smtptls with misleading docs and missing SMTP+TLS support

Ben Caradoc-Davies ben at transient.nz
Wed Feb 10 02:18:21 UTC 2016


Further notes:

(1) There was an old issue that this flag should have been called 
--smtptls/smtptls for consistency. When making braking changes, perhaps 
this suggestion should be implemented?

(2) Auto-enabling SMTP+TLS on port 465 and SMTP+STARTTLS on port 587 
would enhance usability.

Many of the changes I have suggested break backwards compatibility with 
existing .reportbugrc and scripts.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben at transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand



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