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Package: nmh
Version: 1.8-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
have been using MH (now nmh) since 1990's
after upgrading to trixie rcvtty stopped working
it appears that getutxent() returns a null
rather than information about users on the system
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages nmh depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libcurl4t64 8.14.1-2+deb13u2
ii libdb5.3t64 5.3.28+dfsg2-9
ii liblockfile1 1.17-2
ii libreadline8t64 8.2-6
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.28+dfsg1-9
ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.28+dfsg1-9
ii libssl3t64 3.5.4-1~deb13u1
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20250216-2
ii mailcap 3.74
ii netbase 6.5
ii sensible-utils 0.0.25
Versions of packages nmh recommends:
ii sendmail-bin [mail-transport-agent] 8.18.1-6+b1
Versions of packages nmh suggests:
pn exmh <none>
ii libmailtools-perl 2.22-1
ii libmime-tools-perl 5.515-1
ii mh-book 200605-2.3
pn mh-e <none>
pn par <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/nmh/mhn.defaults changed:
mhshow-show-application: run-mailcap --action=view 'application/%s:%F'
mhshow-show-text: run-mailcap --action=view 'text/%s:%F'
mhshow-show-text/plain: %lsensible-pager %F
mhshow-show-audio: run-mailcap --action=view 'audio/%s:%F'
mhshow-show-image: run-mailcap --action=view 'image/%s:%F'
mhshow-show-message: run-mailcap --action=view 'message/%s:%F'
mhshow-show-message/rfc822: %lshow -file %F
mhshow-show-video: run-mailcap --action=view 'video/%s:%F'
mhshow-suffix-application/msword: .doc
mhshow-suffix-application/ogg: .ogg
mhshow-suffix-application/onenote: .onepkg
mhshow-suffix-application/onenote: .onetmp
mhshow-suffix-application/onenote: .onetoc
mhshow-suffix-application/onenote: .onetoc2
mhshow-suffix-application/pdf: .pdf
mhshow-suffix-application/postscript: .ps
mhshow-suffix-application/rtf: .rtf
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12: .xlam
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12: .xlsb
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12: .xlsm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12: .xltm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xla
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xlc
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xld
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xll
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xlm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xls
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xlt
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xlw
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12: .ppam
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12: .pptm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12: .sldm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12: .ppsm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12: .potm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint: .pot
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint: .pps
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint: .ppt
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint: .ppz
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12: .docm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12: .dotm
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation:
.pptx
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide:
.sldx
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow:
.ppsx
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template:
.potx
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet:
.xlsx
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template:
.xltx
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document:
.docx
mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template:
.dotx
mhshow-suffix-application/x-bzip2: .bz2
mhshow-suffix-application/x-cpio: .cpio
mhshow-suffix-application/x-dvi: .dvi
mhshow-suffix-application/x-gzip: .gz
mhshow-suffix-application/x-java-archive: .jar
mhshow-suffix-application/x-javascript: .js
mhshow-suffix-application/x-latex: .latex
mhshow-suffix-application/x-sh: .sh
mhshow-suffix-application/x-tar: .tar
mhshow-suffix-application/x-tex: .tex
mhshow-suffix-application/x-texinfo: .texinfo
mhshow-suffix-application/x-troff-man: .man
mhshow-suffix-application/x-troff-me: .me
mhshow-suffix-application/x-troff-ms: .ms
mhshow-suffix-application/x-troff: .t
mhshow-suffix-application/zip: .zip
mhshow-suffix-audio/basic: .au
mhshow-suffix-audio/midi: .midi
mhshow-suffix-audio/mpeg: .mp3
mhshow-suffix-audio/mpeg: .mpg
mhshow-suffix-audio/x-ms-wma: .wma
mhshow-suffix-audio/x-wav: .wav
mhshow-suffix-image/gif: .gif
mhshow-suffix-image/jpeg: .jpeg
mhshow-suffix-image/jpeg: .jpg
mhshow-suffix-image/png: .png
mhshow-suffix-image/tiff: .tif
mhshow-suffix-image/tiff: .tiff
mhshow-suffix-text/calendar: .ics
mhshow-suffix-text/css: .css
mhshow-suffix-text/html: .html
mhshow-suffix-text/rtf: .rtf
mhshow-suffix-text/sgml: .sgml
mhshow-suffix-text/xml: .xml
mhshow-suffix-video/mpeg: .mpeg
mhshow-suffix-video/mpeg: .mpg
mhshow-suffix-video/quicktime: .moov
mhshow-suffix-video/quicktime: .mov
mhshow-suffix-video/quicktime: .qt
mhshow-suffix-video/quicktime: .qtvr
mhshow-suffix-video/x-ms-wmv: .wmv
mhshow-suffix-video/x-msvideo: .avi
mhstore-store-application/PostScript: %m%P.ps
mhstore-store-text/richtext: %m%P.rt
mhstore-store-text: %m%P.txt
mhstore-store-video/mpeg: %m%P.mpg
/etc/nmh/mts.conf changed:
mts: smtp
mmdfldir: /var/mail
mmdflfil:
servers: localhost4
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
severity 1122842 minor
thanks
On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:40:41 -0500, Brendan Reilly writes:
>have been using MH (now nmh) since 1990's
>after upgrading to trixie rcvtty stopped working
>it appears that getutxent() returns a null
>rather than information about users on the system
sorry, but i cannot help you there: utmp was killed off in trixie
so nothing that used utmp/getutent etc. works anymore.
somebody decided that it's a smart to stop supporting interfaces
that won't encounter problems for another 12-13 years...
see
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues.en.html#obsolescence-and-deprecation
or https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1087449
or https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1102018
or https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/04/msg00011.html
or https://wiki.debian.org/pam_lastlog2%20and%20wtmpdb
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