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

[Bill Allombert]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:53:27PM +0200, Lauri Nurmi wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.49
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i
> 
> 
> Popularity-contest should either use HTTP for submitting its data, or ask for

Hello Lauri,

Popularity-contest use HTTP push for submitting. SMTP is used as a fallback
when HTTP fails.

I suggest you read the FAQ: http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ

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.

When installing the default Debian MTA, the user is given the option to enter
the outgoing MTA. 

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

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