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and subject line Bug#1019857: fixed in fetchmail 6.4.33-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1019857,
regarding fetchmail: Running as root is discouraged / no mailservers have been
specified
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.4.33-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I'm getting the following messages in the syslog:
Sep 15 01:03:21 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: init-Script for system wide fetchmail
daemon...
Sep 15 01:03:21 fetchmail[2245]: Starting mail retriever agent: fetchmail.
Sep 15 01:03:21 systemd[1]: Started LSB: init-Script for system wide fetchmail
daemon.
Sep 15 01:03:21 fetchmail[2263]: starting fetchmail 6.4.33 daemon
Sep 15 01:03:25 fetchmail[2310]: fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is
discouraged.
Sep 15 01:03:25 fetchmail[2310]: fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
Sep 15 01:03:25 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=5/NOTINSTALLED
Sep 15 01:03:25 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Sep 15 01:03:25 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Scheduled restart job,
restart counter is at 1.
Sep 15 01:03:25 fetchmail[2338]: fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is
discouraged.
Sep 15 01:03:25 fetchmail[2338]: fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
Sep 15 01:03:25 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=5/NOTINSTALLED
Sep 15 01:03:25 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Sep 15 01:03:26 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Scheduled restart job,
restart counter is at 2.
Sep 15 01:03:26 fetchmail[2342]: fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is
discouraged.
Sep 15 01:03:26 fetchmail[2342]: fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
Sep 15 01:03:26 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=5/NOTINSTALLED
Sep 15 01:03:26 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Sep 15 01:03:26 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Scheduled restart job,
restart counter is at 3.
Sep 15 01:03:26 fetchmail[2343]: fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is
discouraged.
Sep 15 01:03:26 fetchmail[2343]: fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
Sep 15 01:03:26 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=5/NOTINSTALLED
Sep 15 01:03:26 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Sep 15 01:03:27 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Scheduled restart job,
restart counter is at 4.
Sep 15 01:03:27 fetchmail[2344]: fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is
discouraged.
Sep 15 01:03:27 fetchmail[2344]: fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
Sep 15 01:03:27 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=5/NOTINSTALLED
Sep 15 01:03:27 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Sep 15 01:03:27 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Scheduled restart job,
restart counter is at 5.
Sep 15 01:03:27 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Start request repeated too
quickly.
Sep 15 01:03:27 systemd[2293]: fetchmail.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
It seems that this started a few days ago, after upgrading fetchmail from
version 6.4.32-1 to 6.4.33-1.
However, the fetchmail daemon is running as user fetchmail and not as root:
$ ps aux | grep fetchmail
fetchma+ 3239 0.0 0.0 13712 7340 ? Ss 01:25 0:00
/usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile
/var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid --syslog
And the file /etc/fetchmailrc exists and is readable by user fetchmail:
$ dir /etc/fetchmailrc
-rw------- 1 fetchmail root 2.3K Oct 17 2021 /etc/fetchmailrc
Hence, I don't understand why I all of a sudden get these warnings "Running as
root is discouraged." and "no mailservers have been specified."
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'),
(400, 'unstable')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii adduser 3.129
ii debianutils 5.7-0.3
ii init-system-helpers 1.64
ii libc6 2.34-7
ii libcom-err2 1.46.5-2
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20-1
ii libkrb5-3 1.20-1
ii libssl3 3.0.5-2
ii lsb-base 11.2
Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20211016
Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-transport-agent] 4.96-3
pn fetchmailconf <none>
pn resolvconf <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/fetchmail changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: fetchmail
Source-Version: 6.4.33-2
Done: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fetchmail, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]> (supplier of updated fetchmail
package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:22:24 +0200
Source: fetchmail
Architecture: source
Version: 6.4.33-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]>
Closes: 1019549 1019857
Changes:
fetchmail (6.4.33-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Don't enable systemd user mail retrieval (closes: #1019549, #1019857).
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