ksendbugmail problem

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Fri Dec 20 16:14:56 GMT 2002


On Freitag, 20. Dezember 2002 15:21, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> (coolo, didn't you get my mail two weeks ago?)
>
> ksendbugmail uses bugs.kde.org if no other smtp server is specified in the
> email settings configuration. Too bad bko doesn't have anything listening
> on port 25 (or the outside is blocked at least).
well, taking that bugs.kde.org is == mail.kde.org I doubt that.

>
> And even worse, the email settings kcontrol module doesn't allow you to
> specify an smtp server anymore, so ksendbugmail will never work unless you
> manually hack .kde/share/config/emaildefaults.
>
> This means, third-party applications using the bugreport dialog with their
> own email address won't ever get a single bugreport.
>
> IMHO, ksendbugmail should never use bugs.kde.org:25 as fallback and should
> let the user specify an smtp server instead.
As a matter of fact if the author has a @kde.org address, bugs.kde.org is fine 
:)

Whoever took out the SMTP server setting from the kcontrol module should put
it back, no?

Greetings, Stephan





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