Package: mailutils Version: 1:1.1+dfsg1-3.1 Severity: important
I'm closing bug #430166 from the courier-mta package and opening a bug under mailutils, since this appears to be a mailutils problem rather than a courier problem. Courier-mta has a sendmail-like substitute, but it is working properly according to my tests. /usr/bin/mail, part of the mailutils package, can't send mail when invoked as the root user if courier-mta is the local MTA. A nearly identical system using exim has no problem. Sending mail in this way, as a non-root user, has no problem. Sending mail as root via the courier-mta sendmail also has no problem. This is not an alias problem (Courier won't *deliver* mail to root) and isn't related to the MTA accepting mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Think of cron jobs running as root and sending mail from their invoked scripts. I suspect a compatibility problem between mailutils and courier's sendmail substitute. Testing mail sent as root from sendmail works. If I do, as the root user, the command; echo "I like cheese." | /usr/bin/mail -s "test root mail" -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then nothing happens -- the mail goes nowhere and disappears into nothingness, with the exception of the following sample syslog message; Jun 17 23:24:44 localhost 250 Ok. This problem has been confirmed by the courier-mta package maintainer. As a work-around, use the nail package/app instead. anecdotally, I'd say that this has been a problem for a couple of years now, but I can recall a time some years ago when this was not a problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1-sor-2007050601 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mailutils depends on: ii courier-mta [mail-trans 0.53.3-6 Courier Mail Server - ESMTP daemon ii guile-1.6-libs 1.6.8-6 Main Guile libraries ii libc6 2.6-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.40.2-1 common error description library ii libfribidi0 0.10.7-4 Free Implementation of the Unicode ii libgcrypt11 1.2.4-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libgnutls13 1.6.3-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an ii libgsasl7 0.2.12-1+b1 GNU SASL library ii libguile-ltdl-1 1.6.8-6 Guile's patched version of libtool ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.1-6 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libltdl3 1.5.24-1 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libmailutils1 1:1.1+dfsg1-3.1 GNU Mail abstraction library ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.45-1 MySQL database client library ii libncurses5 5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libqthreads-12 1.6.8-6 QuickThreads library for Guile ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libtasn1-3 0.3.9-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime mailutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
