Ubuntu is under attack

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:34 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> ubuntus popcon doesnt use mail for delivery

Then the description is wrong:

aptitude show popularity-contest
Package: popularity-contest
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, dpkg (>= 1.10) | dpkg-awk
Recommends: cron, exim4 | mail-transport-agent, mime-construct
Description: Vote for your favourite packages automatically
 When you install this package, it sets up a cron job that will
anonymously e-mail the Debian developers periodically ...

How -does- popcon get the information out if not by mail?

Anyway, this does not have anything to do with the fact that at least
cron -does- try to send mail, and IMHO if this mail can't be delivered,
cron should be considered broken.

I can't find any in packages.debian.org or google right now, but I
distinctly remember that I've seen very simple MTAs that can only
deliver locally. This would fulfill any dependency on
mail-transfer-agent, and need just a tiny amount of space on the cd.
Evolution could have a default setup with a filter that filters system
mail into a "System Messages" folder.

Regards,
Mario