Debian makes heavy use of it's bug-tracking system for allowing users to inform developers which problem need fixing. However, it normally requires you to have a working MTA that connects to the Internet. This article shows that you can still report bugs even if you don't have a working MTA for any reason.

The following is a step by step example showing how I sent a bug report via my yahoo mail web interface.

First we need to identify the severity for reportbug, from the available severities list.

When reporting bugs, I found that the best way is to use "reportbug --template" to create a template with all the relevant information being automatically gathered:

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