Package: masqmail
Version: 0.2.21-1.2
Severity: normal
If /etc/aliases exists but is empty, then masqmail will queue mail
but not actually deliver it (irrespective of whether sent from inside
or outside, or going to inside or outside).
Masqmail should not simply silently only queue mails without explanation
in the logs or even in the debug output!
(Actually I only discovered the cause of this problem by diffing the
output of stracing the same version of the package on two different
systems; which is clearly not the right answer.)
I believe:
1) masqmail should either be more tolerant of empty aliase files, or
it should write an *ERROR* message to the logs
2) /etc/aliases should be created, but here I am not sure by who. I
presume that the masqmail maintainer knows which package should
have responsiblity for this file. I installed my system from
netinst 20070404 and there was no /etc/aliases (dselect did
want to install some stuff, but I only went into dselect out of
curiousity - I am an aptitude use and aptitude was quite happy
with my very bare installation). Could the masqmail maintainer
please either fix this in masqmail or clone this bug report into
whatever package (netinst? base? or whatever?); whichever is
the "right" solution.
If you need any more information feel free to ask; probably I will
reinstall this system within one month so I can easily try specific
things at install-time; just let me know.
Many thanks!
Alexis
-- 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 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default
locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Versions of packages masqmail depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libident 0.22-3 simple RFC1413 client library - ru
ii liblockfile1 1.06.1 NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii netbase 4.29 Basic TCP/IP networking system
masqmail recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_GB",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
* masqmail/ipup_fetch: true
* masqmail/mda: /usr/bin/procmail -Y -d ${rcpt_local}
* masqmail/online_file: /var/run/masqmail-route
* masqmail/mbox_default: mbox
* masqmail/init_smtp_daemon: true
* masqmail/ipup_runqueue: true
* masqmail/online_detect: file
* masqmail/local_hosts: localhost;graces;*.myth.net;dione.no-ip.org
* masqmail/queue_daemon_ival: -q10m
* masqmail/host_name: graces.myth.net
* masqmail/alias_local_caseless: false
* masqmail/manage_config_with_debconf: true
* masqmail/use_syslog: true
* masqmail/listen_addresses: localhost:25
* masqmail/init_fetch_daemon: true
masqmail/move_existing_nondebconf_config: true
* masqmail/ifup_ifaces: all
masqmail/online_pipe:
* masqmail/init_queue_daemon: true
* masqmail/fetch_daemon_ival: -go10m
* masqmail/local_nets:
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