Package: email-reminder Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: normal
Via dpkg-reconfigure email-reminder, I have set a username, password and smtp server. That was working with email-reminder 0.6.0. I did not take care but since 0.7.0, it was the local exim which was sending the email. I supposed that the cron job was not able to read /etc/email-reminder.conf and thus fall back to it default setting which is using local mail server. With update to 0.7.1-1, I got following error when some reminder has to be sent by the cron job: /etc/cron.daily/email-reminder: Error: authentication with the SMTP server failed with error code 5 at /usr/bin/send-reminders line 171. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/email-reminder exited with return code 255 After studying, I discover that it works if I remove the password in /etc/email-reminder.conf. The SMTP server probably don't need authentification. Trouble is that you cannot remove the password through dpkg-reconfigure email-reminder if you already set it one. If you let the password input blank, it will keep the previously given one. Best regards -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages email-reminder depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii cron 3.0pl1-100 management of regular background p ii debconf 1.5.18 Debian configuration management sy ii libdate-manip-perl 5.48-1 a perl library for manipulating da ii libemail-valid-perl 0.179-1 Check validity of Internet email a ii libgtk2-perl 1:1.140-1 Perl interface to the 2.x series o ii libxml-dom-perl 1.43-4 Perl module for building DOM Level ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages email-reminder recommends: ii anacron 2.3-13 cron-like program that doesn't go ii exim4 4.68-2 meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.68-2 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.10-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication ii libemail-mime-encodings-perl 1.311-2 A unified interface to MIME encodi -- debconf information: * email-reminder/mail_from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * email-reminder/smtp_username: jack.r * email-reminder/smtp_server: smtp.free.fr * email-reminder/send_reminders: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
