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 > >