From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77912 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Outgoing mail defaults Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:22:59 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87mxkt38u4.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300386316 20383 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2011 18:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26230@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Mar 17 19:25:12 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 1Q0Hsm-00054K-8x for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:25:12 +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 1Q0Hsl-0002ha-9Z; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0Hsj-0002hG-Q3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0Hsf-0001Uc-JC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0Hse-0000JD-SO for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0Hse-000511-PV for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:25:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p/e8Urkdu/2v+ZhVZfgX/1ZrxQ4= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77912 gmane.emacs.devel:137358 Archived-At: 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... Ted