severity 593814 important thanks Hi, * rpnpif <rpn...@free.fr> [2010-08-21 12:57]: > /etc/init.d/fetchmail has > # Should-Start: $mail-transport-agent exim4 > but fetchmail starts very early and failed to deliver mails because > The mail transport agent is not ready.
From the documentation: "Should-Start: boot_facility_1 [boot_facility_2...] defines the facilities that if present should start before the service provided by the script. Nevertheless, the script can still start if the listed facilities are missing." Are you sure you have a service installed that provide the mail-transport-agent facility? If you do from my understanding this shouldn't happen. Which MTA are you using, is it maybe not registering itself as mail-transport-agent? Please also see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582475 > This issue could loss mails. > I suggest that /etc/init.d/fetchmail has : > > 1. > # Required-Start: $network $local_fs $remote_fs $syslog > $mail-transport-agent > # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $mail-transport-agent From my understanding this should make no difference, if there is a mail-transport-agent facility it is started before fetchmail given the Should-Start. I can also think of setups without a mail transfer agent so making it a requirement is not appropriate in my opinion. > 2. > Fetchmail does not need usually to start immediately after the boot. A delay > of few minutes (one ?) before the fetchmail start could improve security of > delivering (for ie : to enable a good antispam starting). I don't quite understand this, where would you expect this delay to be implemented? So far I don't see the bug therefore downgrading the severity. Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - n...@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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