[Popcon-developers] Bug#502159: Bug#502159: popularity-contest: when HTTP fails, tries MAILTO: no dpkg-configure options

[furue@hawaii.edu (Ryo Furue)]

Petter,

Thank you for your response.

| > I think this behavior should be configurable through
| > "dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest", because
| > 
| > 1) There are many users whose MTA only allows local delivery;
| > 2) How to change configuration isn't clear.
| 
| The correct way is to add a line with
| 
|   MAILTO=
| 
| in /etc/popularity-contest.conf, to override the default email
| address.

Thanks.  I was actually able to figure that out by reading
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest . 

|  I agree that this should be mentioned in the manual page, at
| the very least. :)
| 
| Not sure I agree that this should be configurable using debconf, or
| just disabled by default. 

Probably you are right.  A simple documentation (in the manpage or in
/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest or both) may be the best way to go.
So, probably I should've categorized my report as a wishlist item.

Regards,
Ryo