Package: msmtp Version: 1.4.19-1 Severity: normal
vixie-cron runs /usr/sbin/sendmail with the HOME environment variable set to /. Because msmtp looks for per-user configuration in $HOME/.msmtp, it will fail to find the configuration file of the user cron is sending mail on behalf of. On a system that depends on per-user configuration files, this makes cron incapable of sending mail as any user (including root). This problem manifests itself in the syslog as something like Feb 10 01:18:01 drake /USR/SBIN/CRON[26100]: (root) MAIL (mailed 8 bytes of output but got status 0x004e ) and, in fact, if you mimic how cron runs sendmail HOME=/ /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -FCronDaemon -oem amd...@mit.edu sendmail (msmtp) immediately exits with sendmail: account default not found: no configuration file available and exit code 78 (0x4e). It's entirely possible this should also be considered a bug in cron. I reported it against msmtp because it is an incompatibility with sendmail that can easily be rectified (by retrieving the user's home directory from the password database instead of relying on HOME to have a sane value). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages msmtp depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcomerr2 1.41.9-1 common error description library ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgsasl7 1.4.0-1 GNU SASL library ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libidn11 1.15-2 GNU Libidn library, implementation ii libk5crypto3 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C ii libkrb5-3 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libntlm0 1.1-1 NTLM authentication library ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages msmtp recommends: ii ca-certificates 20090814 Common CA certificates msmtp suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
