Problem with Debian package's interaction with mail server

[Antonio Terceiro]

Josef Spillner escreveu:
> Hello,
> 
> One of my scripts installs the oldstable (lenny) package of Noosfero along 
> with a debootstrapped basic Debian installation in order to generate a small 
> live demo VM. This process has worked flawlessly since its inception about two 
> years ago on my machines.
> 
> Recently, I've had to work in a changeroot environment to run all of these 
> scripts on a foreign system. This system runs a Postfix server which is not 
> under my control. It appears that as opposed to the Exim server normally 
> present on my systems, it rejects emails immediately and hence lets the 
> Noosfero package installation fail when the template user email is about to be 
> confirmed.

Don't you mean the opposite (postfix is fine with the invalid address
and exim chokes generating an exception)? At least that is what I have
experienced.

> Is there something which can be done in the short term about this issue, such 
> as catching this exception in the Noosfero code, or even some configuration 
> hint without modifying the package?

Since you don't have control of the MTA, you could

> If the stable (squeeze) package doesn't have this issue, I might as well 
> upgrade to it, although I'd like to keep the changes to the VM build scripts 
> as non-invasive as possible for the time being until the next release.
> 
> See below for the installation failure log.
> 
> Josef
> 
> NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index 
> "mezuro_plugin_metrics_pkey" for table "mezuro_plugin_metrics"
>    -> 0.0258s
> == 20101209151640 CreateMetrics: migrated (0.0260s) 
> ===========================
> 
> (in /usr/share/noosfero)
> rake aborted!
> 550 5.1.1 <noosfero_template at template.noo>: Recipient address rejected: 
> template.noo
> 
> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
> error encountered populating database:
> /usr/share/dbconfig-common/scripts/noosfero/install/pgsql exited with non-zero 
> status
> dbconfig-common: noosfero configure: aborted.
> dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
> dpkg: error processing noosfero (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  noosfero
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This has been fixed in the git repo (both stable and master branches),
but did not make into a release yet: Noosfero won't try to send emails
to the fake addresses given to template profiles.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at colivre.coop.br>
Colivre - Cooperativa de Tecnologias Livres
http://www.colivre.coop.br/


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