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
