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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: submit@bugs.kde.org doesn't work ?
From:       Matt Koss <koss () miesto ! sk>
Date:       2000-08-30 8:22:24
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, David Faure wrote:
> 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..." :}

I got that, still ... :-)

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

Well, it's in the kdebase/kcontrol/email, so I guess that it's supposed to be 
the general email setup, isn't it ?

>
> >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.

That's exactly what I have on mind.
I think that people who would want to report bugs ( via email ), have 
probably installed kdenetwork anyway, so this should work for most of the 
cases.

	Best regards

			Matt


-- 
Matt Koss
e-mail:  koss@miesto.sk

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