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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Troubles with bug submitting
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-07-31 9:17:30
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On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:12:50AM -0400, Jason Stephenson wrote:
> I don't know if this hase been reported before, but I have some issues with the
> bug reporting system provided by Dr. Konqi.
> 
> Lately, when I compile from CVS, kicker has been dying at startup and I get the
> dialog box asking if I want to report a bug. I configured the email setup
> correctly for my configuration and clicked on the "OK" button to (hoepfully)
> save it. That was done using the buttons in the send bug report window. I added
> a subject and a note to explain what I was doing when the backtrace was
> generated. I then sent the mail.
> 
> However, a few seconds later, I received an email at my console, which I
> thought should have been impossible, since I'm not running sendmail or anything
> like that, I guess I need to check my set up again. This email said that there
> were DNS errors trying to resolve the address kde2test@casanova.mis.net.
> 
> Well, you never should have been resolving that address, 'cause its a bogus
> one. I have DSL and the setup requires me to use bogus internal names.
> 
> The problem is, that I changed the mail configuration to send the real address,
> but Dr. Konqi (or whatever sends the mail) ignored that configuration change
> and tried sending the message with my local machine and my local user account
> anyway.
> 
> I think it actually used my local sendmail, which is why I got a reply.
> 
> Oh never mind, this is probably an issue with sendmail, however, it would be
> nice if we could use SMTP in that dialog. Some of us have some rather bizarre
> setups on our systems.

Using kio_smtp in the bug report dialog is definitely planned...
once kio_smtp works :-)

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David FAURE
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