reportbug tries to relay through fiordland.ubuntu.com which does not work

[musicman]

did you report it to the bug fixers? I've heard there's this reportbug
function...

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:32 PM, John Hawkinson <jhawk at mit.edu> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 3.39ubuntu3
> Severity: important
>
> reportbug's default configuration attempts to send mail via a system
> that does not accept mail, throwing away bug reports.
>
> reportbug ships with a reportbug.conf:
>
>  # Use this to enable the internal MTA (bypassing /usr/sbin/sendmail)
>  # smtphost localhost
>  #
>  # You can also specify a port other than 25
>  smtphost fiordland.ubuntu.com
>
> Allowing it to try send mail through there, I get:
>
> Connecting to fiordland.ubuntu.com via SMTP...
> SMTP send failure: {'ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com': (554, '5.7.1 <ubuntu-users@
> lists.ubuntu.com>: Relay access denied'), 'jhawk at MIT.EDU': (554, '5.7.1 <jhawk at M
> IT.EDU>: Relay access denied')}
> Wrote bug report to /tmp/reportbug-cron-20090112-31681-PtWxSC
>
> This is not really an acceptable set of defaults. This machine
> has a valid SMTP configuration of its own, but even when reportbug
> was told it could use it, it chose not to.
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> ** Environment settings:
> INTERFACE="text"
>
> ** /home/jhawk/.reportbugrc:
> reportbug_version "3.39ubuntu3"
> mode advanced
> ui text
> realname "John Hawkinson"
> email "jhawk at MIT.EDU"
> no-check-uid
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>  APT prefers hardy-updates
>  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-22-server (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
> ii  apt                      0.7.9ubuntu17.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ii  python                   2.5.2-0ubuntu1  An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python-central           0.6.7ubuntu0.1  register and build utility for Pyt
>
> reportbug recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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