muttbug
(1)
Name
muttbug - Report a bug (or rather a flea) in mutt.
Synopsis
flea
Description
User Manuals flea(1)
NAME
flea - Report a bug (or rather a flea) in mutt.
SYNOPSIS
flea
DESCRIPTION
flea is a shell script which helps you to submit a bug
report against the mutt(1) mail user agent.
If you invoke flea, you'll first be prompted for a short
description of the problem you experience. This will be
used as the bug report's subject line, so it should be con-
cise, but informative.
You are then asked to assign an initial severity level to
the problem you observe; flea will give you a description
which severity level is appropriate or not.
Then, you are asked for the location of a core dump (nor-
mally named core) which may have been left over by a crash
of your mutt(1). You can just type "no" here, or you can
enter the path leading to a core dump. flea will try to use
either sdb(1), dbx(1), or gdb(1) to extract some information
from this core dump which may be helpful to developers in
order to determine the reason for the crash.
Finally, you are asked whether or not you want to include
personal and system mutt(1) configuration files with the bug
report. If at all possible, we urge you to answer these
questions with "yes", since a reference configuration makes
it incredibly easier to track down a problem.
If you are using Debian GNU/Linux, flea will now check
whether or not mutt has been installed as a Debian package
on your system, and suggest to file the bug against the
mutt(1) and Debian bug tracking systems. This option was
added since the mutt(1) project uses another instantiation
of the Debian bug tracking system, so submitting bugs
against both systems in one pass is simple.
You are then dropped into your favorite editor as determined
by the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables.
Please give us details about the problem in the empty space
below the line reading "Please type your report below this
line". We are most interested in precise information on
what symptoms you observe and what steps may be used to
reproduce the bug. Chances are that problems which can eas-
ily be reproduced will be fixed quickly. So please take
some time when filling out this part of the template.
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The remainder of the template contains various kinds of
information gathered from your system, including output of
the uname(1) command, output from mutt(1) itself, and your
system's mutt(1) configuration files. You may wish to
browse through this part of the bug report form in order to
avoid leaking confidential information to the public.
If you leave the editor, flea will give you the option to
review, re-edit, submit, or abandon your bug report. If you
decide to submit it, a mail message containing your report
will be sent to <fleas@mutt.org>. You'll receive a copy of
this message.
While your bug report is being processed by the bug tracking
system, you will receive various e-mail messages from the
bug tracking system informing you about what's going on:
Once your bug report has been entered into the bug tracking
system, it will be assigned a unique serial number about
which you are informed via e-mail. If you wish to submit
additional information about the bug, you can just send it
to the address fleas@mutt.org with #serial in the subject.
Later, you will most likely receive questions from the
developers about the problem you observed, and you will
eventually be informed that your bug report has been closed.
This means that the bug has been fixed at least in the hg(1)
repository. If the answers you receive don't satisfy you,
don't hesitate to contact the developers directly under
mutt-dev@mutt.org.
You can also browse your bug report and all additional
information and replies connected to it using the bug track-
ing system's Web interface under the following URL:
http://bugs.mutt.org/
ENVIRONMENT
flea will use the following environment variables:
EMAIL
Your electronic mail address. Will be used to set the
bug report's From header, and to send you a copy of the
report.
LOGNAME
Your login name. If the EMAIL environment variable
isn't set, this will be used instead to send you a copy
of the report. Setting the sender will be left to
sendmail(1) on your system.
REPLYTO
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If set, the bug report will contain a Reply-To header
with the e-mail address contained in this environment
variable.
ORGANIZATION
If set, the bug report will contain an Organization
header with the contents of this environment variable.
PAGER
If set, this environment variable will be expected to
contain the path to your favorite pager for viewing the
bug report. If unset, more(1) will be used.
VISUAL
If set, this environment variable will be expected to
contain the path to your favorite visual editor.
EDITOR
If set, this environment variable will be expected to
contain the path to your favorite editor. This vari-
able is examined if and only if the VISUAL environment
variable is unset. If EDITOR is unset, vi(1) will be
used to edit the bug report.
FILES
core If present, this file may contain a post-mortem memory
dump of mutt. It will be inspected using the debugger
installed on your system.
SEE ALSO
dbx(1), gdb(1), lynx(1), mutt(1), muttrc(5), sdb(1), send-
mail(1), uname(1), vi(1)
The mutt bug tracking system: http://bugs.mutt.org/
AUTHOR
flea and this manual page were written by Thomas Roessler
<roessler@does-not-exist.org>.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | mail/mutt |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/devel/mutt-1.5.21.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.mutt.org/.
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