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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: submit@bugs.kde.org doesn't work ?
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-08-29 19:34:09
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At 10:06 29/08/00 +0000, you wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>> Matt Koss wrote:
>> > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>> > > Matt Koss wrote:
>> > > > I get this everytime I try to report a bug via standard help menu :
>> > >
>> > > The bug report dialog doesn't what it claims to do and uses the local
>> > > sendmail no mater what SMTP server you specified. This means you will
>> > > have
>> > > to setup sendmail to correctly forward your mail
>> >
>> > Thanks for the help.
>> >
>> > Still, I think that users will expect this to work without additional
>> > sendmail setup.
>>
>> Sure. But noone wants to implement the SMTP protocol for a bug reporting
>> feature. We expect people not beeing able to config sendmail also not
>> beeing
>> able to do decent bug reports :)
>
>To tell you the truth, up to now I did not have to setup sendmail at all.
>I always used smtp server of my ISP and everything worked well.
>To setup sendmail because I want to report bug, is a bit pushed too far IMO.
We all know that. It doesn't change the fact that "noone wants to
implement..." :}

>Why do we have a special dialog for e-mail setup then ?
For kmail, no ?

>IMO, if people have already installed kdenetwork, this bug-report feature 
>should call kmail in order to send mail.
Ah, that's an idea. Not calling kmail directly, but calling kmailservice,
now that it supports setting the subject & recipient, and creating
the initial body of the mail (AFAIK). Just like we handle mailto: URLs
now. That's the way to go IMHO.

David.

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