From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 10: 9:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A013E37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:09:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DF443F75 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:09:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) id h2BI9V2c009078; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:09:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:09:31 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Christopher Nehren Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon, breach of contract for Comcast users Message-ID: <20030311180931.GA50327@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1047405242.3393.59.camel@prophecy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1047405242.3393.59.camel@prophecy> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 11), Christopher Nehren said: > I'm running FreeBSD as the only operating system on my home machine, > using Comcast non-professional as my ISP. My problem is that send-pr > is written to use a local mail daemon to send mail to the GNATS > submission site. Running a mail daemon, however, is strictly and > expressly prohibited by Comcast's Terms of Service. Is there another > way of submitting bug reports that doesn't require me to either > breach my contract with my ISP, or manually copy and paste text for > each report (yes, I've checked the web interface, which is 'currently > disabled')? I'm sure runing an incoming mail daemon is the prohibited part. Just using it to send messages can't be prohibited imho. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message