Bug#229856: [Popcon-developers] Bug#229856: popularity-contest: popcon should ask and set MAILFROM

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:00:15AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.9
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> many users systems will only have a minimal mail setup and won't be
> recieving mails on their own system. The users from address will very
> often not be what popcon will use to send mail. popcon should ask for
> the from address to be used and set that as MAILFROM in its conffig
> file.

What do you want to achieve by doing that ?

popcon is not supposed to send mail to the user and MAILFROM is for 
a faked From address, that will not affect the behaviour of the MTA
w.r.t. the sender address.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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