From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77987 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Sullivan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Outgoing mail defaults Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:10:25 -0400 Message-ID: <871v24bju6.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net> References: <87mxkt38u4.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300460939 12188 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2011 15:08:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26301@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 18 16:08:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bIL-0000Xu-KE for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:08:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bI5-0002Gu-Hd; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bI4-0002Ga-5y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bHq-0005hc-KG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bHp-0007YV-TX for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:08:21 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bHp-0000ID-MX for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:08:21 +0100 Original-Received: from 74-94-156-210-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.94.156.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:08:21 +0100 Original-Received: from john by 74-94-156-210-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:08:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74-94-156-210-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:evfTqb7naIZXpJp3LTR3kWRVJEk= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77987 gmane.emacs.devel:137401 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:43:45 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > > LMI> David Reitter writes: >>> One could also configure an open SMTP server that only accepts e-mail >>> to the specific bug reporting addresses, which is then used as a >>> default for bug reporting. > > LMI> Many ISPs block port 25 for outgoing traffic, so it's probably better > LMI> not to rely on that working. But it could be used as a fallback if > LMI> smtpmail hasn't been configured, or if it fails when sending the bug > LMI> report, perhaps? > > LMI> And the open SMTP server could also listen on an alternative port to > LMI> avoid firewall issues slightly more. > > It's got to be a web form. Nowadays most people are firewalled off for > outbound mail on any port. I'd use hashcash to verify the sender's good > intentions and to ensure the form submission is from an Emacs client. > This would benefit Emacs in general... I switched to port 587 and haven't had a problem since, on any ISP or hotel/mobile wifi.