[Popcon-developers] Bug#241383: popularity-contest: emailed reports bounce

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>, 241383@bugs.debian.org (Bill Allombert)]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:55:43PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.14
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> The mail it tries to send bounces.  I don't understand the bounce
> message.  That is, I can't tell whether it's the comcast SMTP server
> or the Debian server that "requires valid sender domain".
> 
> Or maybe this is some kind of configuration problem here (though
> other outgoing email is being sent fine).
> 
> This may be the same as bugs #229539 and #229856.

I believe it is. The sender adress is root@vanzandt.comcast.net, but:
$ host vanzandt.comcast.net
vanzandt.comcast.net
Host vanzandt.comcast.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

so popcon.debian.org mail server rejected it. 

You need to set a valid sender adress for the root user. Usually you
just need to add a line in /etc/email-addresses like

root: jrvz@comcast.net

We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are not able to change the 
popcon.debian.org mail server configuration for the time being.

Thanks for your interest in the  popularity-contest project.

Cheers,
Bill.