[racket-dev] reporting bugs from behind firewalls

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 15 08:40:29 EST 2012

You misunderstood. I don't want the poor dr to open any port or communicate with the outside. I want an option like in PDF previewers that says "send this info out via a mail client" and puts all the info into Mail. 



On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> Just now, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:30 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:
>> 
>>> (for company firewall reasons I cannot use the bug report
>>> facility.  Please bear with me).
>> 
>> Perhaps we should have an option in DrRacket that collects the bug
>> report information but then places it in a mail buffer for the
>> programmer. -- Matthias
> 
> It used to use port 1025 (which is still forwarded on the machine) to
> avoid mail problems, but now it's all through HTTP -- and a setup that
> allows emails but forbids HTTP is extremely rare.
> 
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