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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2014-02-24 23:25:31 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Except the popcon.debian.org server itself seems to work properly,
> this is the SMTP relay that reject the message.
> 
> I am concerned that an SMTP relay might be configured to only accept
> emails with a certain MAIL FROM: domain, and that forcing the domain
> to be root at popcon.d.o instead of using root email address might be
> counter-productive in the sense that popcon might fail even if the
> root address is correctly configured.

ISP's SMTP smarthosts normally don't force the domain, as users may
have several e-mail addresses. These smarthosts just check whether
the domain exists (since if it doesn't, this probably means spam in
practice... or badly configured "From:", which needs to be fixed;
the use by popcon -- which never needs replies -- is special).

A user may configure his own submission host to accept only some
domains, though. But I'm wondering whether many users do this.

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