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Re: popcon mail confusion



Adam Hardy wrote:
> popcon has installed itself as a crontab.weekly job which is executed by 
> user root, I presume, but I get a 'mail delivery failed' turn up in my 
> user account, not in root. I checked the config for popcon and I can see 
> how it is picking up my user account. How can it be doing that?

You probably have a /etc/aliases containing
root: youraccount

popularity-contest does fall back to trying to send email if submission
by http fails. 

> Secondly I tried setting up an MTA to accept the email from popcon, when 
> it tries via email, and I picked msmtp-mta and configured it with my 
> email provider settings, but I can't see how anything can pick up msmtp 
> without some more config, but I can't see anything relevant in the man 
> pages. Am I on the right track, and what is the next step?

popcon sends mails in the standard way, by running the sendmail command,
which should be provided by your MTA.

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see shy jo

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