Package: courier-mta
Version: 1.4.1-6
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Upgrade to Trixie
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Nothing, I was running courier-msa for years. It is not starting.
* What was the outcome of this action?
* What outcome did you expect instead?
See "systemctl status courier-msa.service" and "journalctl -xeu
courier-msa.service" for details.
admin@stw1:/etc/init.d$ systemctl status courier-msa.service
× courier-msa.service - Courier ESMTP Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/courier-msa.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/courier-msa.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Sat 2025-08-23 00:59:18 MST; 5s ago
Duration: 25ms
Invocation: 0d73c945cbd844cabc844359ba1a23fe
Process: 252922 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/esmtpd-msa start (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Aug 23 00:59:17 stw1.rcdrun.com systemd[1]: Starting courier-msa.service -
Courier ESMTP Daemon...
Aug 23 00:59:18 stw1.rcdrun.com systemd[1]: courier-msa.service: Can't open PID
file '/run/courier/esmtpd-msa.pid' (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
Aug 23 00:59:18 stw1.rcdrun.com systemd[1]: courier-msa.service: Failed with
result 'protocol'.
Aug 23 00:59:18 stw1.rcdrun.com systemd[1]: Failed to start courier-msa.service
- Courier ESMTP Daemon.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages courier-mta depends on:
ii courier-authlib 0.72.4-1
ii courier-base 1.4.1-6
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libcourier-unicode8 2.3.2-1
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
ii libgdbm6t64 1.24-2
ii libidn2-0 2.3.8-2
ii libnet-cidr-perl 0.25-1
ii libperl5.40 5.40.1-6
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii perl 5.40.1-6
ii wget 1.25.0-2
courier-mta recommends no packages.
Versions of packages courier-mta suggests:
ii bsd-mailx [mail-reader] 8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1.1
pn courier-doc <none>
pn courier-filter-perl <none>
ii emacs-nox [mail-reader] 1:30.1+1-6
ii mutt [mail-reader] 2.2.13-1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/courier/aliases/system changed [not included]
/etc/courier/courierd changed [not included]
/etc/courier/enablefiltering changed [not included]
/etc/courier/esmtpauthclient [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/etc/courier/esmtpauthclient'
/etc/courier/esmtpd changed [not included]
/etc/courier/esmtpd-msa changed [not included]
/etc/courier/esmtpd-ssl changed [not included]
/etc/courier/esmtpd.cnf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/courier/esmtpd.cnf'
-- debconf information excluded
