[Popcon-developers] Bug#722228: popularity-contest may send mail with a wrong domain by default

[ballombe@debian.org (Bill Allombert)]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.60
> Severity: minor
> 
> When HTTP fails, popularity-contest tries to send the report by
> e-mail, but it may send the mail with a wrong domain:
> 
> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> C801338C008    58413 Mon Sep  9 09:06:27  root at xvii.vinc17.org
> (host ioooi.vinc17.net[92.243.22.117] said: 450 4.1.8 <root at xvii.vinc17.org>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found (in reply to RCPT TO command))
>                                          survey at popcon.debian.org
> 
> -- 57 Kbytes in 1 Request.
> 
> Of course, e-mail configuration can be changed (I didn't use address
> rewriting for root because root isn't normally expected to send mail
> to remote addresses), but I don't think that the user is expected to
> do that just for popularity-contest; this requirement isn't even
> documented.

Hello Vincent, Sorry for the late answer.

The popcon.debian.org mail server is supposed to accept email with invalid sender 
address. If it is no more the case, then this is a bug that should be fixed in the
server, not in the package.

Do you know if the problem still occur ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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