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).
The first user's $MAIL gets filled with delivery failure notifications like
this:
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From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@xxxx>
To: root@xxxx
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
sur...@popcon.debian.org
Mailing to remote domains not supported
---
This host is not used for sending nor receiving mail, so for ages I did not
even look at $MAIL, and the failures remained
unseen.
Popularity-contest should either use HTTP for submitting its data, or ask for
the outgoing SMTP server's address at
installation. Whether or not there is an option to configure outgoing SMTP, I
don't know and don't care. Its address is not
queried during installation, so 90% of people who thought they would be
participating in popularity contest are not actually
participating. Whatever statistics are gathered, are severely biased.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.9
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.15.8.13 Debian package management system
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon
ii exim4 4.72-6+squeeze3 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail 4.72-6+squeeze3 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
pn anacron <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
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