Bug#996433: transmission-daemon: Transmission fails to send mail using exim4
If that's the official way to fix it, I think so. Hopefully this page stays findable by search engines so that others trying to get Transmission to send emails through Exim don't have to do all the troubleshooting that I did :) I've made this change to my system, thanks for the tip. I'm still learning systemd.
Bug#996433: transmission-daemon: Transmission fails to send mail using exim4
Hi, The transmission-daemon documentation was updated[1]. [1] https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/b34b5193ca5de83ae85cac3c971214b17c3035f2 To customize systemd services, you should user overrides. $ sudo systemctl edit transmission-daemon.service and add the following content to the override: [Service] NoNewPrivileges=false and that override will be kept untouched by package upgrades. (you should not modify /lib/systemd/system/ files) So this can be closed I think? Thanks, Alex
Bug#996433: transmission-daemon: Transmission fails to send mail using exim4
I've installed transmission 4.0.2 from testing and found that it reverted my /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/transmission-daemon.service to have NoNewPrivileges=true which broke exim sending mail again. This bug seems to still be present. Let me know if there's any other info I can provide. On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 3:17 PM JT Hundley wrote: > I have no idea. I assume upgrading transmission wouldn't ask me to keep an > older file here and I did not modify any of these files until I ran into > the issue. I did that test on a fresh install which rules out me messing up > the files :) > Also, I'm not sure how I missed your email about this, sorry about that. > I'm not sure if this bug is still present in the current stable version. I > found this ticket after looking to make a new one for transmission in > Debian 12. > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:16:52 -0400 Sandro Tosi wrote: > > control: tags -1 +moreinfo > > > > > It seems that this bug is caused by this change in Transmission: > https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/795 > > > After changing my > > > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/transmission-daemon.service > > > to read "NoNewPrivileges=false" instead of true and reloading the > > > service and daemon, I find that transmission is properly sending emails > > > again. > > > > this is weird: that PR is included in the 3.00 release provided in > > debian, and infact the file > > /lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service includes the PR > > change; how did you get that outdated file in /etc/systemd/system/ ? > > > > -- > > Sandro "morph" Tosi > > My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ > > Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi > > Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrotosi > > > > >
Bug#996433: transmission-daemon: Transmission fails to send mail using exim4
I have no idea. I assume upgrading transmission wouldn't ask me to keep an older file here and I did not modify any of these files until I ran into the issue. I did that test on a fresh install which rules out me messing up the files :) Also, I'm not sure how I missed your email about this, sorry about that. I'm not sure if this bug is still present in the current stable version. I found this ticket after looking to make a new one for transmission in Debian 12. On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:16:52 -0400 Sandro Tosi wrote: > control: tags -1 +moreinfo > > > It seems that this bug is caused by this change in Transmission: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/795 > > After changing my > > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/transmission-daemon.service > > to read "NoNewPrivileges=false" instead of true and reloading the > > service and daemon, I find that transmission is properly sending emails > > again. > > this is weird: that PR is included in the 3.00 release provided in > debian, and infact the file > /lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service includes the PR > change; how did you get that outdated file in /etc/systemd/system/ ? > > -- > Sandro "morph" Tosi > My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ > Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi > Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrotosi > >
Bug#996433: transmission-daemon: Transmission fails to send mail using exim4
control: tags -1 +moreinfo > It seems that this bug is caused by this change in Transmission: > https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/795 > After changing my > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/transmission-daemon.service > to read "NoNewPrivileges=false" instead of true and reloading the > service and daemon, I find that transmission is properly sending emails > again. this is weird: that PR is included in the 3.00 release provided in debian, and infact the file /lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service includes the PR change; how did you get that outdated file in /etc/systemd/system/ ? -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrotosi
Bug#996433: transmission-daemon: Transmission fails to send mail using exim4
Package: transmission-daemon
Version: 3.00-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
After upgrading to Debian 11, I found that Transmission stopped sending
me emails about finished torrents. I did a bunch of troubleshooting and
ensured that Transmission is properly executing the completed torrent
script. I also saw that Exim still otherwise works, and can even send
email as the debian-transmission user after su-ing to this user. I even
did a fresh debian install on another machine and did the bare minimum
configuration to get both exim4 and transmission set up on it; I
witnessed the same exact error.
My smaller test script is a simple one-liner:
echo "Torrent Completed: $TR_TORRENT_NAME" | mail -s "Torrent Completed"
jthund...@jthundley.com > /etc/transmission-daemon/mailout 2>
/etc/transmission-daemon/mailerr
mailout is empty while mailerr is:
mail: cannot send message: Process exited with a non-zero status
mail: Cannot open file /var/lib/transmission-daemon/dead.letter: Permission
denied
It seems that this bug is caused by this change in Transmission:
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/795
After changing my
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/transmission-daemon.service
to read "NoNewPrivileges=false" instead of true and reloading the
service and daemon, I find that transmission is properly sending emails
again.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set
LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages transmission-daemon depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii libc62.31-13+deb11u2
ii libcurl4 7.74.0-1.3+b1
ii libevent-2.1-7 2.1.12-stable-1
ii libminiupnpc17 2.2.1-1
ii libnatpmp1 20150609-7.1
ii libssl1.11.1.1k-1+deb11u1
ii libsystemd0 247.3-6
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii transmission-common 3.00-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
Versions of packages transmission-daemon recommends:
ii transmission-cli 3.00-1
transmission-daemon suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json'
-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_DK.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
