[Popcon-developers] Bug#722228: Bug#722228: popularity-contest may send mail with a wrong domain by default
On 2014-02-24 23:22:45 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Debian admin? That's a popularity-contest problem: the user's SMTP
> "smarthost" is rejecting the mail. There are two solutions to solve
> this:
>
> 1. Make sure that an existing domain is used, either by using a fixed,
> popcon-specific address for "From:", or by asking the user to provide
> a valid e-mail address at configuration time (which could be changed
> with dpkg-reconfigure).
>
> 2. Send the mail by a direct SMTP connection to the popcon server, so
> that the usual SMTP smarthost is bypassed.
Well, this second solution wouldn't work well, unless popcon provides
its own scripts to send the mail when an Internet connection becomes
available (a bit like what local mail servers do). This is important
since mail is used instead of HTTP precisely when the HTTP connection
failed, e.g. because of the lack of a permanent Internet connection.
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