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and subject line courier-mta: aliasdir not created
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regarding courier-mta: aliasdir not created
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Package: courier-mta
Version: 0.53.3-5
Severity: normal
Installing courier-mta doesn't create /etc/courier/aliasdir. This results in
an error message during running makealiases which has something to do with the
aliasdir/.courier-:xalias directory.
Therefore, I created aliasdir myself and gave it rights rwxr-x---. After this,
mail to non-existent (local) users wasn't rejected anymore. Instead I got log
error messages like the following:
courierd: started,id=...,from=<[email protected]>,module=local,
host=alias!nonexistent!1!1!/etc/courier/aliasdir!!,addr=<alias>
courierlocal: id=...,from=<[email protected]>,
addr=<[email protected]>: Unable to read .courier file.
The respective mail message stayed in queue and further unsuccessful delivery
attempts where made over and over again.
The solution was to make aliasdir owned by user daemon with group daemon instead
of user root with group root, as it was the case before.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages courier-mta depends on:
ii courier-base 0.53.3-5 Courier Mail Server - Base system
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libperl5.8 5.8.8-7etch3 Shared Perl library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
courier-mta recommends no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
I have recently taken over maintenance of this package. I apologize that
nobody responded to your bug report in a timely manner.
I am going to close this bug report as I have verified that the current
version of courier-mta (1.4.1-9) does create /etc/courier/aliasdir.
Feel free to reopen the bug report if you are still having this problem.
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Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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