[Popcon-developers] minor tweaks for popcon.debian.org

[Martin Schulze]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> [Bill Allombert, 2004-02-01]
> > We would like to ask you to perform some minor tweaking:
> >
> > 1) Avery site <http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon> is still
> > online and updated by cronjob. If Avery account is disabled, then
> > could you stop the cronjob and link this page to popcon.debian.org ?
> > a suitable replacement page is available at
> > <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/index.html>
> > We won't object if you prefer to just shutdown
> > <http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr> completly.
> 
> This is still not done, almost a year later.  Any hopes of getting the
> URL redirected and the cron job stopped?

I don't understand.  We normally don't fiddle with developers crontab,
except for security and performance.

> > 3) exim has the setting headers_sender_verify that block emails from
> > people that forget to set up a valid address for the root account.
> > Unfortunately this is quite common. However it is my understanding
> > that exim does not allow this setting to apply to a subset of vhost,
> > so I don't expect you will be change it for popcon.

Wichert wrote:
> You can do that on a subset or whatever else you want to toggle it on.

How so?  Phil Hazel wrote that it's a boolean option and hence can
be either true or false without any indication about the address
it applies to.

Regards,

	Joey

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