[Popcon-developers] Bug#741104: Bug#741104: popularity-contest: Silently fails to send anything if no MTA configured

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 07:28:14AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> > popularity-contest is able to detect whether a MTA is installed or not, but not whether
> > the MTA is able to send email to the popcon.debian.org server.
> 
> If you want to change that, one possibility is to use VERP (with
> libmail-verp-perl) to read bounce messages and detect that mail
> sending should be disabled.

I doubt it. How popularity-contest would be supposed to receive the bounce in the first
place ?

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

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