apticron fails when mailx is provided by s-nail
Bug #1562229 reported by
Leon Weber
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apticron (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| apticron (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Adam Conrad | ||
Bug Description
apticron fails to send its email report when /usr/bin/mailx is provided by s-nail, as s-nail uses a different command interface than heirloom-mailx and bsd-mailx:
apticron will die with the following output:
> MIME-Version: 1.0: No such file or directory
Note that apticron does check whether mailx is provided by heirloom-mailx or bsd-mailx, but it does not seem to support s-nail. However, a standard release upgrade from 12.04 to 16.04 (via 14.04) has left my system in a state in which mailx is provided by s-nail without my help, so this might break many users’ configurations.
The relevant Debian bug seems to be <https:/
| description: | updated |
| tags: | added: xenial |
| Changed in apticron (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Leon Weber (leonn) wrote | #1 |
| tags: | added: regression-release |
| Changed in apticron (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| assignee: | nobody → Adam Conrad (adconrad) |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in apticron (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in apticron (Debian): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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I can confirm the patch by Nick Coleman, which is attached to Debian bug #812719, fixes the problem.