Bug#321056: [Popcon-developers] Bug#321056: popularity-contest: Description talks about e-mail only, while http is the default.

[Bill Allombert]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:45:55PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Bill Allombert]
> > This need to be fixed. smtp should be the default, http is not
> > reliable enough.
> 
> I suspect you didn't check the code.  There is no need to fix
> anything, as http is tried by default on new installations, and the
> script fall back to trying email if http failed.

Ah good. Calling http the default sure is confusing.

> Can you explain what you mean by "http is not reliable enough"?  It
> seem to be more reliable than email on a lot of machines.

Any machine that might not be connected to the net when the popcon cron
job run. The email will be queued and sent as soon as a connection
is established (dial-up, pppoe, dhcp, etc.).

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

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