Package: courier-mta Version: 0.53.3-6 Severity: important
/usr/bin/mail, part of the mailutils package, can't send mail when invoked from the root user if courier-mta is the local MTA. A nearly identical system using exim has no problem. Sending mail in this was as a non-root user has no problem. Sending mail as root via 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 about 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 example syslog message (sorrows is the local hostname); Jun 17 23:24:44 sorrows 250 Ok. NOTE: Racke has confirmed this bug via the courier-users mailing list and asked that I submit a Deb bug. -- 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 courier-mta depends on: ii courier-authlib 0.59.3-1 Courier authentication library ii courier-base 0.53.3-6 Courier Mail Server - Base system ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070609-1 GCC support library ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libperl5.8 5.8.8-7 Shared Perl library ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070609-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 courier-mta recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * courier-mta/dsnfrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * courier-mta/defaultdomain: sorrows.opendreams.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
