Package: reportbug Version: 4.12.6 Severity: important When run as an ordinary user, reportbug fails to send an email to the Debian tracking system. It creates the email, but the send fails with the folowing output:
Sending message via /usr/bin/mail... /usr/bin/mail: invalid option -- 'o' usage: mail [-dEIinv] [-a header] [-b bcc-addr] [-c cc-addr] [-s subject] to-addr ... [-- sendmail-options ...] mail [-dEIiNnv] -f [name] mail [-dEIiNnv] [-u user] Original write failed, wrote bug report to /var/tmp/reportbug-reportbug-20110205-19020-3W3kR1 The send mail package on this system is ssmtp, and it is working for other mail-enabled apps. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="text" ** /home/lrhorer/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "3.47" mode standard ui text email "lrho...@satx.rr.com" -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.8.10.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-reportbug 4.12.6 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available) pn debsums <none> (no description available) pn dlocate <none> (no description available) pn emacs22-bin-common | <none> (no description available) ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available) pn python-urwid <none> (no description available) ii python-vte 1:0.24.3-2 Python bindings for the VTE widget ii ssmtp [mail-transpor 2.64-4 extremely simple MTA to get mail o ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from -- Configuration Files: /etc/reportbug.conf changed: submit query-bts cc config-files compress email "lrho...@fletchergeek.com" realname "Leslie Rhorer" mta /usr/bin/mail ui text verify mode standard -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org