On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 06:37:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Package: maildrop
> Version: 2.0.2-11
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Recently, maildrop started printing the following message to stderr:
>
> "authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied"
>
> As far as I can tell, mail is delivered just fine. But not only is this
> error annoying, it causes getmail to believe that maildrop has failed
> (getmail assumes that the delivery process has failed if it emits any
> message to stderr).
You could also have getmail fixed to check the exit status instead of or as
well as stderr.
This message isn't actually printed by maildrop, but by courier-authlib,
so I can't fix this (except with further command-line option brain surgery
which I do not want to do).
> I notice that the root problem won't be fixed for etch
> (#394779), but as a stopgap, since I'm not using authdaemon at all, it
> would be nice if I could selectively drop this message. I can also redirect
> stderr to /dev/null, of course, but that risks discarding legitimate errors.
How about not using -d?
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