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

[mteodor@gmail.com (Teodor MICU)]

2013/2/5 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>:
> popcon work without SMTP.  It will first try using http for delivery,
> and only if this fail will it try to send email.  If http delivery
> fail, it will syslog a message about this.

That would be great. However, I've seen this fail both from my work
network (with firewall restrictions) and on other networks with no
restrictions.

> I suggest you investigate why http delivery fail to figure out why
> this isn't working for you.

Does it try to connect to some other non-standard HTTP port? (not 80
or 443). A destination host name would help too.

Cheers