Package: heirloom-mailx
Version: 12.5-4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
I noticed, that heirloom-mail does not send any mails, when called via anacron.
I tried the following script, placed in /etc/cron.daily:
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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/heirloom-mailx -s test root@localhost < /tmp/test.txt
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/tmp/test.txt contains multiple lines of text (no UTF-8) and is world readable.
When anacron runs "run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily" the script is executed
(which I verified), but no mail is sent. Even /usr/sbin/sendmail is not called
in this case.
A mail is sent as expected when
- I call the script directly
- it is executed via "at"
- it is executed via a cron script in /etc/cron.d
- I use bsd-mailx instead of heirloom-mailx
- the script generates some output which is sent by anacron itself ("Anacron
job
'cron.daily' on host ...")
- when I execute "anacron -d" and cron.daily starts
What I also tested but did not solve the problem:
- set various environment variables (from, MAILFROM, MAILRC=/dev/null, MAILTO)
- set different parameters (-n, -r root@...)
- install the lastest version of heirloom-mailx (nail) from CVS (12.5 7/5/10)
It makes no difference if the script is placed in cron.daily, cron.weekly or
cron.monthly.
Best regards
Bjoern
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages heirloom-mailx depends on:
ii base-files 8+deb8u1
ii libc6 2.19-18
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-19
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1
heirloom-mailx recommends no packages.
Versions of packages heirloom-mailx suggests:
ii exim4 4.84-8
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.84-8
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