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Re: popularity contest : not sending email via HTTP



On Sun May 30 2010 01:57:47 pm Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed and activated the popularity contest package
> (note : goal of this package is to gather statistics about package
> usage and report them to Debian).
>
> Option http is activate to send the statistics (in place of email
> protocol).
>
> cat /etc/popularity-contest.conf :
> ...
> PARTICIPATE="yes"
> USEHTTP="yes"
> ...
>
> However mailer is complaining :
>
>  From MAILER-DAEMON Sat May 22 06:26:23 2010
> ...etc...
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>
> 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:
>
>    survey@popcon.debian.org
>      Mailing to remote domains not supported
> ...etc..
>
> How to send email to popularity contest ?

Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and set it up to use a smarthost, your 
usual email smtp address will probably be ok.

> Why is http not used ?

That I don't know.


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