| 30 | | The mutt bug tracking system broke down under the spam thrown at it and |
| 31 | | was shut down in January 2005. To report a bug in mutt, please use |
| 32 | | your system's bug reporting system if mutt came as part of your |
| 33 | | system, or refer to the mutt web site at |
| 34 | | .I http://www.mutt.org |
| 35 | | for more information. |
| | 33 | If you invoke |
| | 34 | .BR flea , |
| | 35 | you'll first be prompted for a short |
| | 36 | description of the problem you experience. This will be used as the |
| | 37 | bug report's subject line, so it should be concise, but informative. |
| | 38 | .PP |
| | 39 | You are then asked to assign an initial severity level to the |
| | 40 | problem you observe; |
| | 41 | .B flea |
| | 42 | will give you a description which severity level is appropriate or |
| | 43 | not. |
| | 44 | .PP |
| | 45 | Then, you are asked for the location of a core dump (normally named |
| | 46 | .BR core ) |
| | 47 | which may have been left over by a crash of your |
| | 48 | .BR mutt (1). |
| | 49 | You can just type \(lqno\(rq here, or you can enter the path leading |
| | 50 | to a core dump. |
| | 51 | .B flea |
| | 52 | will try to use either |
| | 53 | .BR sdb (1), |
| | 54 | .BR dbx (1), |
| | 55 | or |
| | 56 | .BR gdb (1) |
| | 57 | to extract some information from this core dump which may be helpful |
| | 58 | to developers in order to determine the reason for the crash. |
| | 59 | .PP |
| | 60 | Finally, you are asked whether or not you want to include personal |
| | 61 | and system |
| | 62 | .BR mutt (1) |
| | 63 | configuration files with the bug report. If at all possible, we |
| | 64 | urge you to answer these questions with \(lqyes\(rq, since a |
| | 65 | reference configuration makes it incredibly easier to track down a |
| | 66 | problem. |
| | 67 | .PP |
| | 68 | If you are using Debian GNU/Linux, |
| | 69 | .B flea |
| | 70 | will now check whether or not |
| | 71 | .B mutt |
| | 72 | has been installed as a Debian |
| | 73 | package on your system, and suggest to file the bug against the |
| | 74 | .BR mutt (1) |
| | 75 | and Debian bug tracking systems. This option was added since the |
| | 76 | .BR mutt (1) |
| | 77 | project uses another instantiation of the Debian bug tracking |
| | 78 | system, so submitting bugs against both systems in one pass is |
| | 79 | simple. |
| | 80 | .PP |
| | 81 | You are then dropped into your favorite editor as determined by the |
| | 82 | .B EDITOR |
| | 83 | and |
| | 84 | .B VISUAL |
| | 85 | environment variables. |
| | 86 | .PP |
| | 87 | Please give us details about the problem in the empty space below |
| | 88 | the line reading \(lqPlease type your report below this line\(rq. |
| | 89 | We are most interested in precise information on what symptoms you |
| | 90 | observe and what steps may be used to reproduce the bug. Chances |
| | 91 | are that problems which can easily be reproduced will be fixed |
| | 92 | quickly. So please take some time when filling out this part of the |
| | 93 | template. |
| | 94 | .PP |
| | 95 | The remainder of the template contains various kinds of information |
| | 96 | gathered from your system, including output of the |
| | 97 | .BR uname (1) |
| | 98 | command, output from |
| | 99 | .BR mutt (1) |
| | 100 | itself, and your system's |
| | 101 | .BR mutt (1) |
| | 102 | configuration files. You may wish to browse through this part of |
| | 103 | the bug report form in order to avoid leaking confidential |
| | 104 | information to the public. |
| | 105 | .PP |
| | 106 | If you leave the editor, |
| | 107 | .B flea |
| | 108 | will give you the option to review, re-edit, submit, or abandon your |
| | 109 | bug report. If you decide to submit it, a mail message containing |
| | 110 | your report will be sent to <submit@bugs.guug.de>. You'll receive a |
| | 111 | copy of this message. |
| | 112 | .PP |
| | 113 | While your bug report is being processed by the bug tracking system, |
| | 114 | you will receive various e-mail messages from the bug tracking |
| | 115 | system informing you about what's going on: Once your bug report has |
| | 116 | been entered into the bug tracking system, it will be assigned a |
| | 117 | unique serial number about which you are informed via e-mail. If |
| | 118 | you wish to submit additional information about the bug, you can |
| | 119 | just send it to the address |
| | 120 | .BR \fIserial\fP@bugs.guug.de . |
| | 121 | .PP |
| | 122 | Later, you will most likely receive questions from the developers |
| | 123 | about the problem you observed, and you will eventually be informed |
| | 124 | that your bug report has been closed. This means that the bug has |
| | 125 | been fixed at least in the |
| | 126 | .BR cvs (1) |
| | 127 | repository. If the answers you receive don't satisfy you, don't |
| | 128 | hesitate to contact the developers directly under |
| | 129 | .BR mutt-dev@mutt.org. |
| | 130 | .PP |
| | 131 | You can also browse your bug report and all additional information |
| | 132 | and replies connected to it using the bug tracking system's Web |
| | 133 | interface under the following URL: |
| | 134 | http://bugs.guug.de/ |
| | 135 | .SH |
| | 136 | ENVIRONMENT |
| 38 | | is now a shell script that prints a short error message and exits. |
| | 139 | will use the following environment variables: |
| | 140 | .IP "EMAIL" |
| | 141 | Your electronic mail address. Will be used to set the bug report's |
| | 142 | From header, and to send you a copy of the report. |
| | 143 | .IP "LOGNAME" |
| | 144 | Your login name. If the |
| | 145 | .B EMAIL |
| | 146 | environment variable isn't set, this will be used instead to send |
| | 147 | you a copy of the report. Setting the sender will be left to |
| | 148 | .BR sendmail (1) |
| | 149 | on your system. |
| | 150 | .IP "REPLYTO" |
| | 151 | If set, the bug report will contain a Reply-To header with the |
| | 152 | e-mail address contained in this environment variable. |
| | 153 | .IP "ORGANIZATION" |
| | 154 | If set, the bug report will contain an Organization header with the |
| | 155 | contents of this environment variable. |
| | 156 | .IP "PAGER" |
| | 157 | If set, this environment variable will be expected to contain the |
| | 158 | path to your favorite pager for viewing the bug report. If unset, |
| | 159 | .BR more (1) |
| | 160 | will be used. |
| | 161 | .IP "VISUAL" |
| | 162 | If set, this environment variable will be expected to contain the |
| | 163 | path to your favorite visual editor. |
| | 164 | .IP "EDITOR" |
| | 165 | If set, this environment variable will be expected to contain the |
| | 166 | path to your favorite editor. This variable is examined if and only |
| | 167 | if the |
| | 168 | .B VISUAL |
| | 169 | environment variable is unset. If |
| | 170 | .B EDITOR |
| | 171 | is unset, |
| | 172 | .BR vi (1) |
| | 173 | will be used to edit the bug report. |
| | 174 | .SH |
| | 175 | FILES |
| | 176 | .PP |
| | 177 | .IP "core" |
| | 178 | If present, this file may contain a post-mortem memory dump of mutt. |
| | 179 | It will be inspected using the debugger installed on your system. |
| | 180 | .SH |
| | 181 | SEE ALSO |
| | 182 | .PP |
| | 183 | .BR dbx (1), |
| | 184 | .BR gdb (1), |
| | 185 | .BR lynx (1), |
| | 186 | .BR mutt (1), |
| | 187 | .BR muttrc (5), |
| | 188 | .BR sdb (1), |
| | 189 | .BR sendmail (1), |
| | 190 | .BR uname (1), |
| | 191 | .BR vi (1) |
| | 192 | .PP |
| | 193 | The mutt bug tracking system: http://bugs.guug.de/ |