[Popcon-developers] Bug#403916: popularity-contest should support MTAOPTS

[Michelle Konzack]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.28
Severity: wishlist

Wish description:

I am using ssmtp as my MTA and need the MTAOPTS "-au" (auth-user), "-ap"
(auth-pass) plus "-am" (auth-method).  I have added to my config this:

----[ '/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="7a500ea53cd746e7b10608044eb387a2"
PARTICIPATE="yes"

MAILTO="survey at popcon.debian.org, XXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXXXX at freenet.de"
MAILFROM="XXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXXXX at freenet.de"

MTAOPTS="-au XXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXXXX at freenet.de -ap XXXXXXXX -am cram-md5"
--------------------------------------------------------------------

and then I have modified

----[ '/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest' ]-----------------------
do_sendmail()
{
	if [ -n "$MAILFROM" ]; then
		sendmail -oi $MTAOPTS -f "$MAILFROM" $MAILTO
	else
		sendmail -oi $MTAOPTS $MAILTO
	fi
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Now it works perfectly.

Please, can you add this to a new version of popularity-contest?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.1
Kernel Version: Linux michelle1.private 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux


Versions of the packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf        1.4.30.13      Debian configuration management system
ii  dpkg           1.10.28        Package maintenance system for Debian
exim4	Not installed or no info
ssmtp	Version: 2.61-2 (Provides virtual package mail-transport-agent)
ii  ssmtp          2.61-2         extremely simple MTA to get mail off the sys
	^^^ (Provides virtual package mail-transport-agent)


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