Package: reportbug
Version: 3.39ubuntu3
Severity: important

reportbug's default configuration attempts to send mail via a system
that does not accept mail, throwing away bug reports.

reportbug ships with a reportbug.conf:

# Use this to enable the internal MTA (bypassing /usr/sbin/sendmail)
# smtphost localhost
#
# You can also specify a port other than 25
smtphost fiordland.ubuntu.com

Allowing it to try send mail through there, I get:

Connecting to fiordland.ubuntu.com via SMTP...
SMTP send failure: {'ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com': (554, '5.7.1 <ubuntu-users@
lists.ubuntu.com>: Relay access denied'), 'jhawk@MIT.EDU': (554, '5.7.1 <jhawk@M
IT.EDU>: Relay access denied')}
Wrote bug report to /tmp/reportbug-cron-20090112-31681-PtWxSC

This is not really an acceptable set of defaults. This machine
has a valid SMTP configuration of its own, but even when reportbug
was told it could use it, it chose not to.

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

** /home/jhawk/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.39ubuntu3"
mode advanced
ui text
realname "John Hawkinson"
email "jhawk@MIT.EDU"
no-check-uid

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers hardy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-22-server (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.7.9ubuntu17.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.5.2-0ubuntu1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.6.7ubuntu0.1 register and build utility for Pyt

reportbug recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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