Re: Distro usage stats
On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 00:33, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 11:32:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > popularity-contest requires a mail-transport-agent that
> > can send to the outside world. What if someone only
> > uses smtp for transmitting email to the outside world?
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> Uuuh, MTAs speak SMTP. What you say is redundant.
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> If you mean they send everything through thier ISP, then this totally
> trivial to do with exim.
Hmmm. I'd better go sleep; it's been a long week, and my
brain is getting fuzzy.
I've consciously never wanted to send mail out except via my
email client, so when I try to send out a bug report via
reportbug, I get this error in my spool file almost immediately.
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
>
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
> failed:
>
> submit@bugs.debian.org
> SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
> host master.debian.org [65.125.64.135]: 550 rejected:
> cannot route to sender <me@rebel>
I'll have to study exim, and presumably that will solve my
reportbug and popularity-contest problems at the same time.
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