[Popcon-developers] Bug#319273: popularity-contest: should be able to send copies to From address

[Ulf Harnhammar]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:02:39PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Why do you make it so complex?  I would believe it was sufficient to
> add this line to /etc/popularity-contest.conf if you wanted to send
> email both to the normal MAILTO address and the MAILFROM address.
>   MAILTO="$MAILTO,$MAILFROM"

Using that method, both addresses will be included in the "To:" header 
of the e-mails that are sent. I was afraid that the receiving script on
the other side would not like that. Perhaps I was wrong.

> I am not convinced that your need should be a separate configuration
> option.  This is partly influenced by the fact that we are moving
> towards HTTP submissions to make sure more machines can participate.

Fair enough.

> >   popularity-contest/use-http: true
> >                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  (huh? a bug??)
> 
> Why do you believe it is a bug?  We just added support for HTTP post
> submissions.

Here is my /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf:


# Default config file for Debian's popularity-contest package.
#
# Local overrides are in /etc/popularity-contest.conf

# PARTICIPATE can be one of "yes" or "no".
# If you don't want to participate in the contest, say "no"
# and we won't send messages.
#
# If this option is missing, the default is "no".
#
PARTICIPATE="no"

# MAILTO specifies the address to e-mail statistics to each week.
#
MAILTO="survey at popcon.debian.org"

# MAILFROM is the forged sender email address you want to use in
# email submitted to the popularity-contest.  If this is commented
# out, no From: or Sender: lines will be added to the outgoing mail,
# and it will be your MTA's job to add them.  This is usually what
# you want.
#
# If your MTA is misconfigured or impossible to configure correctly,
# and it always generates invalid From: and/or Sender: lines, you
# can force different results by setting MAILFROM here.  This can
# cause problems with spam bouncers, so most people should leave it
# commented out.
#
#MAILFROM="root at example.org"

# SUBMITURLS is a space separated list of where to submit
# popularity-contest reports using http.
SUBMITURLS="http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi"

# USEHTTP enables http reporting.   Set this to 'yes' to enable it.
USEHTTP="no"

# MY_HOSTID is a secret number that the popularity-contest receiver
# uses to keep track of your submissions.  Whenever you send in a
# new entry, it overwrites the last one that had the same HOSTID.
#
# This key was generated automatically so you should normally just
# leave it alone.
#
#MY_HOSTID="_ID_"


And here is my /etc/popularity-contest.conf:


# Config file for Debian's popularity-contest package.
#
# To change this file, use:
#        dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
#
# You can also edit it by hand, if you so choose.
#
# See /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf for more info
# on the options.

MY_HOSTID=[[censorship]]
PARTICIPATE="yes"
MAILFROM="metaur at telia.com"
USEHTTP="no"
COPYTOFROMADDRESS="yes"


As you can see, both files say USEHTTP="no", so the "use-http: true" 
data in reportbug looks a bit weird.

// Ulf