[Popcon-developers] Bug#741104: Bug#741104: popularity-contest: Silently fails to send anything if no MTA configured
Bill Allombert
ballombe at debian.org
Sun Mar 20 14:10:41 UTC 2016
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:49:34AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:10:20 +0200 Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> Hello Bill,
> I use popularity-contest on most Debian boxes I administer and I have
> experienced this issue where the MTA is configured to only deal with
> local mail.
Please do not hijack other people bug report...
> On one such system, I get the bounce basically once a week.
> Since I haven't changed the default configuration of
> popularity-contest, this means that the HTTP method almost always fails
> and the SMTP method is tried (in vain). Do I understand correctly?
The problem addressed in this bug report is that popcon is assuming that if
/usr/sbin/sendmail report success, then the email will be delivered, so
it marks the submission as successful and do not resend it again.
> Please note that the system is not up and running 24/7, and uses
> anacron: hence, the HTTP method is not tried always at the same time.
> Nonetheless, it seems to almost always fail! :-(
Do you know why ? Is the network available already when anacron run ?
If you cannot report neither by HTTP nor by SMTP, then there is little
way for popcon to work.
> Is there any progress on the fix you are working on?
This is a different bug report: #709892
The server was changed to be able to handle load more efficiently and the
client part (in testing/unstable) use a randomized report time to spread
the load.
> Questions:
> • what would happen, if I added
> MAILTO=
> to /etc/popularity-contest.conf?
Then SMTP will not be attempted and the submission will be marked as
failed and will be retried the next day.
Thanks for using popularity-contest!
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Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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