On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:49:34AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:10:20 +0200 Bill Allombert wrote: > > Hello Bill, > I use popularity-contest on most Debian boxes I administer and I have > experienced this issue where the MTA is configured to only deal with > local mail.
Please do not hijack other people bug report... > On one such system, I get the bounce basically once a week. > Since I haven't changed the default configuration of > popularity-contest, this means that the HTTP method almost always fails > and the SMTP method is tried (in vain). Do I understand correctly? The problem addressed in this bug report is that popcon is assuming that if /usr/sbin/sendmail report success, then the email will be delivered, so it marks the submission as successful and do not resend it again. > Please note that the system is not up and running 24/7, and uses > anacron: hence, the HTTP method is not tried always at the same time. > Nonetheless, it seems to almost always fail! :-( Do you know why ? Is the network available already when anacron run ? If you cannot report neither by HTTP nor by SMTP, then there is little way for popcon to work. > Is there any progress on the fix you are working on? This is a different bug report: #709892 The server was changed to be able to handle load more efficiently and the client part (in testing/unstable) use a randomized report time to spread the load. > Questions: > • what would happen, if I added > MAILTO= > to /etc/popularity-contest.conf? Then SMTP will not be attempted and the submission will be marked as failed and will be retried the next day. Thanks for using popularity-contest! -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
