My copy of perlbug contains:

        paraprint <<EOF;
$0 has detected an error while trying to send your message: $error.

Your message may not have been sent. You will now have a chance to sav
+e a copy to disk.
EOF
        SaveMessage();
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and

sub SaveMessage {
    my $file_save = $outfile || "$progname.rep";
    my $file = _prompt( '', "Name of file to save message in", $file_s
+ave );
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So that is what is supposed to happen if there is a problem with sending the e-mail. I can certainly understand being very frustrated when that didn't happen.

Note also that you can use "perlbug -F mybug.txt" if you want to use perlbug w/o it trying to send the e-mail for you.