[Popcon-developers] Bug#229856: popcon: MAILFROM

[Bill Allombert]

severity 229856 normal
merge 229856 229539
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Hello,

We have reached the following conclusion about MAILFROM:

1) the major problem is that popcon.debian.org mail server
reject email with incorrect sender address.

2) setting MAILFROM don't fix the problem (it does not change
the sender address, only the From adress).

3) /etc/mailname may not contain a valid mail domain.

4) A working fix is to add an entry for root in /etc/email-addresses,
and more generally having a properly configured MTA.

5) Alternatively, popcon could use another user instead of root to send
   emails, but finding a suitable user is hard.

6) We don't like the idea of adding a new debconf question for a user
name, because the people that need it are likely to use priority=high,
and be confused/annoyed by a question about the user to use.

7) The best option is to fix popcon.debian.org to do not verify the
sender address. As far as I understand, this is not really possible
with exim3 due to the vhost support in exim3, but exim4 will provide
this feature. So it seems the best option currently to wait until
popcon.debian.org is moved to exim4 or postfix.

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

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