Package: masqmail
Version: 0.2.21-7
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
The error message "could not open failure message template
${prefix}/share/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl" appears in masqmail.log when
message delivery fails.
It seems it tries to open the error template with the string "${prefix}"
contained literally in the file name... Probably it's not properly
expanded in the configure machinery. I have a vague recollection of
someone else talking about a similar problem with another program --
unfortunately I don't remember the conclusion.
I have seen these errors now and then for some time; but I didn't pay
attention to them... Only now I realized that this actually means the
mail could not be delivered, and I won't get a failure notice -- I
wonder how many mails I lost because of that :-(
I consider this a kind of data loss -- thus the severity.
(BTW, it would be nice if the actual message IDs were printed in the
logs, not only the internal ID -- this would make it much easier to find
the referenced mails...)
Actually the cause of delivery failure was temporary in this case, so
the messages simply could have been left in the queue, instead of
generating a failure notice -- but I guess that depends on how the
external mail server handles it, not on masqmail's own policy?...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages masqmail depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libident 0.22-3 simple RFC1413 client library - ru
ii liblockfile1 1.08-3 NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii netbase 4.37 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii update-inetd 4.31 inetd configuration file updater
masqmail recommends no packages.
Versions of packages masqmail suggests:
ii bsd-mailx [mail-re 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii cone [mail-reader] 0.77-2 COnsole Newsreader and Emailer
ii logrotate 3.7.7-3 Log rotation utility
ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.5.20-2 text-based mailreader supporting M
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