Subject: bug#28902: 25.3; M-x report-emacs-bug requires smtp

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 23:05:54 +0300

> From: Faré <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:10:35 -0400
> 
> M-x report-emacs-bug tries to send mail from the localhost, but these
> days, due to spam issues, SMTP is not quite as available as it was say
> twenty years ago. Most localhost do not have a mail server;
> most ISPs do not offer SMTP and further block SMTP ports;
> most servers on the internet will not relay mail without authentication;
> to setup your own server requires possessing a domain and a stable
> server, altering DNS records and mastering technologies
> such as DKIM, DMARC, SPF, etc., that did not exist back in the days
> when M-x report-emacs-bug was originally written.
> To remain usable, M-x report-emacs-bug should at the very least
> document how one may send the mail via some webmail instead, or
> offer to configure emacs (or the underlying system) to offer
> some interface that will bridge the SMTP gap somehow.

This is bug#28154, and someone is hopefully working on it.

Thanks.