[Popcon-developers] Bug#699794: Bug#699794: popularity-contest: should work without a local SMTP/sendmail

Bill Allombert Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Tue Feb 5 17:11:15 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:57:16PM +0200, Teodor MICU wrote:
> 2013/2/5 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>:
> > popcon work without SMTP.  It will first try using http for delivery,
> > and only if this fail will it try to send email.  If http delivery
> > fail, it will syslog a message about this.
> 
> That would be great. However, I've seen this fail both from my work
> network (with firewall restrictions) and on other networks with no
> restrictions.
> 
> > I suggest you investigate why http delivery fail to figure out why
> > this isn't working for you.
> 
> Does it try to connect to some other non-standard HTTP port? (not 80
> or 443). A destination host name would help too.

The URL is http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi
on the standard port, see /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf.

Check whether you have USEHTTP="yes" in /etc/popularity-contest.conf.

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

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