Package: maildrop Version: 2.0.2-11 Severity: normal I was using maildrop as the MDA with esmtp-run. In this configuration it's set up to run as "/usr/bin/maildrop -d %T", and %T is the local part of the address.
This fails when I try to send mail to root, complaining that it can't change user, which is not a surprise, as it's only setgid mail, not setuid root. If I use procmail instead of maildrop I don't get this problem. If I drop the "-d %T" in esmtp's configuration, then mail from root (whether to root or another user) goes AWOL with no messages and no record that I can discover, while mail from a non-root user to root works fine. It seems that this might be a reasonable circumstance in which to have maildrop work setuid root, but if I setuid it it refuses to work (which is fine given current policy, but doesn't help me to get maildrop to work with esmtp). In summary, I don't expect maildrop to come setuid out of the box, but it seems that if I haven't missed anything then it would be nice if it did work setuid. If I've overlooked something, please point it out. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages maildrop depends on: ii courier-authlib 0.58-4 Courier authentication library ii esmtp-run [mail-transport-ag 0.5.1-4 User configurable relay-only MTA ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-19 GCC support library ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libpcre3 6.7-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 maildrop recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
