On 2026-07-21 at 00:45:02, Jack.R ([email protected]) wrote:
> /home/my_user/.email-reminders mode is 100644 with my_user:my_user_group.
> Could it be a permission issue?
It's probably a permissions issue, but I don't think it's your
~/.email-reminders because I can't reproduce it locally by just changing
that:
francois@reykjavik:~$ ls -lh .email-reminders
.rw-rw-r-- 18k francois francois 2 jun 21:41 .email-reminders
francois@reykjavik:~$ chmod 644 .email-reminders
francois@reykjavik:~$ sudo systemctl start email-reminder-collect.service
francois@reykjavik:~$ sudo ls /var/spool/email-reminder/
1000
Can you try adding --verbose to the systemd unit file?
sudo systemctl edit email-reminder-collect.service
with only these lines at the top:
### Editing /etc/systemd/system/email-reminder-collect.service.d/override.conf
### Anything between here and the comment below will become the contents of
the drop-in file
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/collect-reminders --verbose
### Edits below this comment will be discarded
Then please share the output of these commands:
francois@reykjavik:~$ sudo systemctl start email-reminder-collect.service
francois@reykjavik:~$ sudo systemctl status email-reminder-collect.service
○ email-reminder-collect.service - Collect email reminders
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/email-reminder-collect.service;
static)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/email-reminder-collect.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2026-07-21 14:06:38 PDT; 1s ago
Invocation: 0a956f00e26e4712affc7d0092ac29e0
Process: 113027 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/collect-reminders (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 113033 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/collect-reminders --verbose
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 113040 ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/find /var/spool/email-reminder/
-name .* -prune -o -type f -exec /usr/bin/chown email-reminder {} +
(code=exited,>
Main PID: 113033 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 10.4M
CPU: 116ms
jui 21 14:06:38 reykjavik systemd[1]: Starting email-reminder-collect.service
- Collect email reminders...
jui 21 14:06:38 reykjavik collect-reminders[113033]: Found francois
(1000:/bin/bash) with homedir '/home/francois'
jui 21 14:06:38 reykjavik collect-reminders[113033]: Found these local home
directories: [{/home/francois 1000}]
jui 21 14:06:38 reykjavik collect-reminders[113033]: Copied
'/home/francois/.email-reminders' to '/var/spool/email-reminder/1000'
jui 21 14:06:38 reykjavik systemd[1]: email-reminder-collect.service:
Deactivated successfully.
jui 21 14:06:38 reykjavik systemd[1]: Finished email-reminder-collect.service
- Collect email reminders.
Also helpful to share would be these:
francois@reykjavik:~$ sudo ls -ld /var/spool/email-reminder/
drwxrwx--- 1 email-reminder root 8 21 jui 14:06 /var/spool/email-reminder/
francois@reykjavik:~$ grep email-reminder /etc/passwd
email-reminder:x:986:986:Email-reminder
mailer:/var/spool/email-reminder:/usr/sbin/nologin
to make sure that things are setup properly on your machine. If they're not,
then I may need to fix it up in the Debian package's postinst script.
Merci !
François
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