Package: email-reminder
Version: 1.1.0-2+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I cannot catch when it start but it looks like if email are no more collected.
What I try as root
1) using systemd services
~# systemctl start email-reminder-collect.service
~# systemctl status email-reminder-collect.service
○ email-reminder-collect.service - Collect email reminders
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/email-reminder-collect.service;
static)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2026-07-21 09:10:14 CEST; 2s ago
Invocation: 4a36a3f0dce847f8aac13229bc357be5
Process: 842083 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/collect-reminders (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 842089 ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/find /var/spool/email-reminder/
-name .* -prune -o -type f -exec /usr/bin/chown email-reminder {} +
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 842083 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 7.8M
CPU: 77ms
juil. 21 09:10:14 nomade systemd[1]: Starting email-reminder-collect.service -
Collect email reminders...
juil. 21 09:10:14 nomade systemd[1]: email-reminder-collect.service:
Deactivated successfully.
juil. 21 09:10:14 nomade systemd[1]: Finished email-reminder-collect.service -
Collect email reminders.
~# ll /var/spool/email-reminder/
total 0
--> service has run but nothing was collected. Spool is empty
~# systemctl start email-reminder.service
~# systemctl status email-reminder.service
○ email-reminder.service - Send email reminders
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/email-reminder.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2026-07-21 09:10:36 CEST; 7s ago
Invocation: 81eb4e62b0ba4a47a4f591f7a85963f0
TriggeredBy: ● email-reminder.timer
Process: 846423 ExecStart=/usr/bin/send-reminders (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 846423 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 4.4M
CPU: 35ms
juil. 21 09:10:36 nomade systemd[1]: Starting email-reminder.service - Send
email reminders...
juil. 21 09:10:36 nomade systemd[1]: email-reminder.service: Deactivated
successfully.
juil. 21 09:10:36 nomade systemd[1]: Finished email-reminder.service - Send
email reminders.
~# ll /var/spool/email-reminder/
total 0
I did not get any email even if I have a daily email programmed through
email-reminder-editor
2) doing it manually
~# /usr/sbin/collect-reminders
~# ll /var/spool/email-reminder/
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 8191 21 juil. 09:11 1000
--> collect works
~# /usr/bin/send-reminders
Warning: for security reasons, this script should not be run as root.
~# ll /var/spool/email-reminder/
total 0
--> spool has been processed and I got email.
I try to make dpkg-reconfigure email-reminder but get the same result.
/home/my_user/.email-reminders mode is 100644 with my_user:my_user_group.
Could it be a permission issue?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages email-reminder depends on:
ii adduser 3.157
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.92
ii libc6 2.42-17
ii python3 3.13.9-3+b1
ii python3-defusedxml 0.7.1-3
ii python3-pyside6.qtcore 6.10.3-2
ii python3-pyside6.qtgui 6.10.3-2
ii python3-pyside6.qtwidgets 6.10.3-2
ii systemd 261.1-3
Versions of packages email-reminder recommends:
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.99.4-1
email-reminder suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* email-reminder/smtp_server: smtp.free.fr
* email-reminder/mail_from: [email protected]
* email-reminder/smtp_ssl: false
* email-reminder/smtp_username: [email protected]
* email-reminder/send_reminders: true
