[Popcon-developers] Bug#502159: Bug#502159: popularity-contest: when HTTP fails, tries MAILTO: no dpkg-configure options

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Ryo Furue]

> If I'm not mistaken, popularity-contest tries to send email when
> HTTP submission fails.

You are not mistaken.

> I think this behavior should be configurable through
> "dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest", because
> 
> 1) There are many users whose MTA only allows local delivery;
> 2) How to change configuration isn't clear.

The correct way is to add a line with

  MAILTO=

in /etc/popularity-contest.conf, to override the default email
address.  I agree that this should be mentioned in the manual page, at
the very least. :)

Not sure I agree that this should be configurable using debconf, or
just disabled by default.  It would depend on how many submissions we
get using email and how many we get using HTTP.  I do not have such
statistics available.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen