[Popcon-developers] Bug#241383: popularity-contest: emailed reports bounce

[James R. Van Zandt]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.14
Severity: normal


The mail it tries to send bounces.  I don't understand the bounce
message.  That is, I can't tell whether it's the comcast SMTP server
or the Debian server that "requires valid sender domain".

Or maybe this is some kind of configuration problem here (though
other outgoing email is being sent fine).

This may be the same as bugs #229539 and #229856.

Anyway, this kind of thing could conceivably be distorting survey
results.

		- Jim Van Zandt


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POPULARITY-CONTEST-0 TIME:1080474709 ID:df14e03c68cfd60433aafd19a9108e02 ARCH:i386 DEBVER:testing/unstable
1080474667 1078725099 perl-base /usr/bin/perl5.8.3 
1080474667 1080020653 dpkg /usr/bin/dpkg 
1080474667 1078811949 debianutils /usr/bin/savelog 
...
0 0 python-pygresql <NOFILES> 
0 0 libgnome-desktop-2 <NOFILES> 
0 0 librpm4 <NOFILES> 
0 0 slang1 <NOFILES> 
0 0 java-common <NOFILES> 
END-POPULARITY-CONTEST-0 TIME:1080474709





-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.16     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.19    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  exim [mail-transport-agent]   3.36-9.1   An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
* popularity-contest/intro: