Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.26-1+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
-- Brief:
fetchmail creates the file `~/.fetchids` with -rw-rw---- (0660) permissions and
then complains afterwards that the file must not have more than -rwx-----
(0700).
-- Observed Behaviour:
On every run fetchmail set the permissions of `~/.fetchids` to 660. On
the next run of fetchmail (if fetchmail runs successfully before), it
complains that the permissions of `~/.fetchids` must not have more then
700 and exits.
-- Expected Behaviour:
fetchmail should not touch the file properties of `~/.fetchids` and
create it with 600, if it not exists yet.
-- Reproduce:
You need a pop3 server which requires the `~/.fetchids` file.
All following commands are issued with the same non-admin user (here
`raab`) in a defaulted bash shell.
My `~/.fetchmailrc` files looks as follows:
set postmaster raab
set bouncemail
poll pop3.kabelmail.de with proto POP3
user "--REMOVED--" there with password
"--REMOVED--" options ssl keep
For the server pop3.kabelmail.de fetchmail requires an `~/.fetchids`
file. fetchmail creates the file with 660 permissions and fill it with
appropriate data.
If you call fetchmail again it checks the permissions of the
`~/.fetchids` file and complains:
File /home/raab/.fetchids must have no more than -rwx------ (0700)
permissions.
The command aborts with an error return.
If you then set
chmod 600 ~/.fetchids
and then run fetchmail again, it runs fine like expected.
But the file `~/.fetchids` has then again 660 permissions. Therefore,
`~/.fetchids` is created again -- even if exists already -- by fetchmail or the
permissions are always set to 660 anywhere after the check of the file
permissions.
Hence, if you now run fetchmail again, it complains again about wrong file
permissions.
Thus you can run fetchmail regulary (e.g. cron) only with:
/usr/bin/fetchmail; chmod 600 $HOME/.fetchids
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (110, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debianutils 4.4+b1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libcomerr2 1.42.12-1.1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u2
ii libkrb5-3 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u2
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1t-1+deb8u2
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20141019+deb8u1
Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
pn fetchmailconf <none>
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.11.3-1
ii resolvconf 1.76.1
-- no debconf information
