Silly Debian E-mail question

[Daniel Shahaf]

In Mutt, ':set edit_headers' may be relevant.

Perhaps ask this on the Debian lists too?


Omer Zak wrote on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 23:20:10 +0200:
> I have two PCs in a LAN.  One PC has Debian Squeeze installed on it, and
> the other - Debian Wheezy.
> The Debian Squeeze PC has regular Internet access.
> The Debian Wheezy PC is blocked from sending E-mail to the Internet.
> 
> I need to report a bug in Debian Wheezy.
> I ran reportbug on the blocked PC.
> Of course, it cannot send E-mail directly to the Debian bug tracking
> system.  I used the appropriate option to save the bug report as a file.
> The file is ready for transmission to my ISP's SMTP server - it has all
> the appropriate headers and MIME encodings etc.
> 
> The problem:
> How to actually send the file?
> If I use my regular E-mail client (Evolution), and attach the bug report
> to my message, Debian BTS does not accept it.
> I have also mutt and bsd-mailx installed but I don't know if and how to
> use them to send the file.
> 
> What should I RTFM in order to find how to actually send the file?
> 
> The reportbug file begins as follows.
> 
> >> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1048519724=="
> >> MIME-Version: 1.0
> >> From: Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il>
> >> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> >> Subject: aptitude: Misreporting of DL Size
> >> Message-ID: <20111218173009.32124.91794.reportbug at c2.home.zak.co.il>
> >> X-Mailer: reportbug 5.1.1
> >> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:30:09 +0200
> >>
> >> This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug.
> >>
> >>
> >> --===============1048519724==
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >> MIME-Version: 1.0
> >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >> Content-Disposition: inline
> >>
> >> Package: aptitude
> 
> Thanks,
> --- Omer
> 
> 
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