Public bug reported: When running getmail the following error-message occurs:
Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. SimplePOP3Retriever:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:110: getmailrc: operation error (POP error (-ERR [SYS/TEMP] Failed to create /var/mail/.*****.pop with uid 805, gid 12. Change permissions.)) 0 messages retrieved, 0 skipped I actually thought the permissions weren't set right so I checked, but that didn't help. I even tried running it as root (!!!). getmail actuallay has a protection and won't run as root, but the error-msg is produced before the check. Later on I found out that there is neither a gid 12 nor a uid 805 on a newly installed ubuntu. So where do these ids come from? I think this should definitely changed to work out of the box. ** Affects: getmail4 (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- getmail uses wrong gid/uid https://launchpad.net/bugs/57807 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs