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

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:32:13 -0500
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
> 

Can you file this on launchpad? I know the system sent it to the users
mailing list, but it never gets worked if it stays here. 

The right place to file bug reports is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

That will give the developers a chance to see if they can fix it.

Thanks.

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Charlie Kravetz 
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