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

[Bill Allombert]

severity 741104 normal
retitle 741104 popcon does not detect that the MTA is unable to send email.
tags - d-i
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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 silently fails to send any information when an MTA has not
> been configured on localhost (which is very common nowadays, that is why I
> selected grave severity).

Hello Lauri,
I am adjusting the severity and the title to reflect the actual issue.
There is a difference between not installing a MTA at all and configuring a MTA
in such a way that it cannot send email to the server.
While the first is easy to detect, the second is not.

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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