[Popcon-developers] Bug#699794: popularity-contest: should work without a local SMTP/sendmail

[mteodor@gmail.com (Teodor)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.56
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

After removing postfix (or any other SMTP server) from all systems, I
see that the monthly popcon message fails to be delivered (no IP addr
based relay here, only u/p submission).

It would be nice if popcon could work just like reportbug, that is with
no local SMTP server (or sendmail like tool).

Cheers


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  dpkg                   1.16.9

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                               3.0pl1-124
ii  nullmailer [mail-transport-agent]  1:1.11-2

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron  2.3-19

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true