It's not a bug. If there is already /var/spool/pop, its group owner
should be mail and has permission 2755, excepting it was wrong
modified by other programs.

On 6/14/05, Tashiro AKIRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: qpopper-drac
> Version: 4.0.5-4sarge1
> Severity: critical
> 
> After I installed qpopper-drac on my sarge sever to use pop-before-smtp,
> I tried to fecth mail with Mozilla Thunderbird.
> 
> Thunderbird showed following message.
> 
> > Failed to create /var/spool/pop/.username.pop with uid **, gid **
> > Change permissions.
> 
> Next line is permissions of /var/spool/pop after qpopper-drac was installed.
> 
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2005-06-14 13:36 pop
> 
> So, I found wrong code in  postinst source of qpopper-drac and fixed it.
> 
> ##### Wrong code in postinst #####
> if [ ! -d /var/spool/pop ]
> then
>        mkdir -p /var/spool/pop
>        chgrp mail /var/spool/pop
>        chmod 2775 /var/spool/pop
> fi
> 
> ##### Fixed code #####
> if [ ! -d /var/spool/pop ]
> then
>        mkdir -p /var/spool/pop
> fi
> chgrp mail /var/spool/pop
> chmod 2775 /var/spool/pop
> 
> I hope this bug will be fixed by maintainer.
> Thnaks.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.26.tashiro
> Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP (charmap=EUC-JP)
> 
> Versions of packages qpopper-drac depends on:
> ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libgdbm3                    1.8.3-2      GNU dbm database routines 
> (runtime
> ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules 
> l
> ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7e-3     SSL shared libraries
> ii  postfix [mail-transport-age 2.1.5-9      A high-performance mail transport
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
>

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