Re: misc/41318: Unable to submit bug report with send-pr when ISP filters outbound smtp

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/41318; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: misc-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost
Subject: Re: misc/41318: Unable to submit bug report with send-pr when ISP
 filters outbound smtp
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 16:08:38 +0200

 At 10:30 Uhr +0000 03.05.2009, Martin Husemann wrote:
 >  Maybe we should add a prompt to send-pr like
 >
 >    "This needs a working local mail setup. If you do not send mail
 >     from this machine, please use the the web form at
 >       http://www.netbsd.org/send-pr
 >     instead.
 >
 >     Do you want to (c)ontinue sending the PR, (a)bort and use the
 >     web form, or (n)ever ask you again and proceed..."
 >
 >  And then store a flag in ~/.send-pr indicating the third choice.
 
 [hauke@pizza] ~ > fgrep ".send-pr" /usr/bin/send-pr
 [hauke@pizza] ~ >
 
 NetBSD is still running Gnats 3 (why? Gnats 4 has been out for > five 
 years) -- no ~/.send-pr here. Yes, I agree it would be nice to be 
 able to parameterise send-pr's operation more.
 
        hauke
 
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