Bug#700678: Please reenable the DDTP email interface
On 17 February 2013 21:15, Martin Eberhard Schauer
<Martin.E.Schauer@gmx.de> wrote:
>> What makes you think it's disabled? I just sent a message to it and it
>> responded normally.
>
> Until 27.09.2012 19:53 (last response from Churro) my user experience was an
> almost immediate response: empty mail to pdesc@ddtp.debian.net, (no
> subject),
> translation attached (last message sent: 27.09.2012 19:51).
>
> Now I've to wait about two days to be sure that something went wrong with
> pdesc@ddtp.debian.net. No response within five minutes, with about two days
> delay my mail provider sends a message that he gave up.
I looked for your email address in the logs and got this:
/var/log/exim4/mainlog:2013-02-17 19:22:46 1U78sw-000718-D0 <=
martin.e.schauer@gmx.de H=mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20] P=esmtp S=76584
id=51211FB5.3090808@gmx.de
/var/log/exim4/mainlog:2013-02-17 19:23:19 1U78sw-000718-D0 =>
|/org/ddtp.debian.net//ddts/bin/mailparser <pdesc@ddtp.debian.net>
R=ddtp_aliases T=address_pipe
/var/log/exim4/mainlog:2013-02-17 19:23:19 1U78tT-00071c-Nr <=
pdesc@i18n.debian.net H=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] U=ddtp
P=esmtp S=12878
/var/log/exim4/mainlog:2013-02-17 19:23:20 1U78tT-00071c-Nr **
martin.e.schauer@gmx.de <Martin.E.Schauer@gmx.de> R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after initial
connection: host mx00.gmx.net [213.165.67.114]: 554-gmx.net (mxgmx004)
Nemesis ESMTP Service not available\n554-No SMTP service\n554 invalid
DNS PTR resource record
Which indicates something is going wrong on the return trip. But I've
never seen this particular error message before. Indeed, if I connect
to that IP on port 25 I get the same message.
> Once you notice common typos or other easy to correct errors such as
> encoding problems, it is possible to bypass any review process and to
> fix
> this for all packages at once using a script. It is suggested that only
> one trusted translation coordinator collects all these issues and
> applies
> the script.
>
> As I understand things the script would have to populate the database
> directly?
> So I would have to become member in some group and to learn about populating
> a
> database. Am I right?
Ah, no. Not sure who wrote that part (it's under the bit about Pootle
what is seriously out of date) but the only thing I can think it
relates to it someone doing a spellcheck on the translation files and
then using a script to feed all the changes via the mail interface.
Can't remember who did that though. The mail interface writes directly
into the database, updating the database by a script on the machine
has never been a good idea.
Hope this helps,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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