[Popcon-developers] Bug#741104: Bug#741104: popularity-contest: Silently fails to send anything if no MTA configured

Subject: [Popcon-developers] Bug#741104: Bug#741104: popularity-contest: Silently fails to send anything if no MTA configured
From: pabs@debian.org (Paul Wise)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 07:28:14 +0800
Message-id: <[🔎] CAKTje6GCod_YqwfYsfRm+ZPbV44+BpyAQZK9UAtzK82UJvcqjg@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20140308174254.GC29955@yellowpig>
References: <[🔎] 20140308155327.11906.85088.reportbug@vhal.local> <[🔎] 20140308174254.GC29955@yellowpig>

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Bill Allombert wrote:

> popularity-contest is able to detect whether a MTA is installed or not, but not whether
> the MTA is able to send email to the popcon.debian.org server.

If you want to change that, one possibility is to use VERP (with
libmail-verp-perl) to read bounce messages and detect that mail
sending should be disabled.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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