[Popcon-developers] Bug#722228: Bug#722228: popularity-contest may send mail with a wrong domain by default

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2014-02-24 22:06:42 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
[...]
> 2014-02-24 21:54:30 1WI2Xm-0001Mu-Rw <= root at yellowpig.invalid U=root P=local S=353
> 2014-02-24 21:54:31 1WI2Xm-0001Mu-Rw ** test at popcon.debian.org R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<root at yellowpig.invalid> SIZE=1387: host smtp.free.fr [2a01:e0c:1::25]: 550 5.1.8 <root at yellowpig.invalid>: Sender address rejected: Domain
> not found
> 
> I will ask Debian admin to fix it.

Debian admin? That's a popularity-contest problem: the user's SMTP
"smarthost" is rejecting the mail. There are two solutions to solve
this:

1. Make sure that an existing domain is used, either by using a fixed,
popcon-specific address for "From:", or by asking the user to provide
a valid e-mail address at configuration time (which could be changed
with dpkg-reconfigure).

2. Send the mail by a direct SMTP connection to the popcon server, so
that the usual SMTP smarthost is bypassed.

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