Package: courier-imap
Version: 5.2.11+1.4.1-6
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
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After an upgrade, it seems the version of GNU TLS was upgraded to a version
not comtible with courier-imap-ssl.
Eg:
sudo /etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl status
○ courier-imap-ssl.service - Courier IMAP Daemon (SSL)
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/courier-imap-ssl.service;
enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2025-08-23 20:54:18 AEST; 3s ago
Duration: 18.104s
Invocation: 0524e1d78eef491e98a660569b38c8a8
Process: 1667711 ExecStart=/usr/lib/courier/imapd-ssl start (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 1667763 ExecStop=/usr/lib/courier/imapd-ssl stop (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1667723 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 2.5M
CPU: 63ms
Aug 23 20:53:59 ada systemd[1]: Starting courier-imap-ssl.service - Courier
IMAP Daemon (SSL)...
Aug 23 20:53:59 ada systemd[1]: Started courier-imap-ssl.service - Courier
IMAP Daemon (SSL).
Aug 23 20:54:02 ada imapd-ssl[1667723]: GnuTLS version mismatch
Aug 23 20:54:02 ada imapd-ssl[1667723]: GnuTLS version mismatch
Aug 23 20:54:06 ada imapd-ssl[1667723]: GnuTLS version mismatch
Aug 23 20:54:06 ada imapd-ssl[1667723]: GnuTLS version mismatch
Aug 23 20:54:18 ada systemd[1]: Stopping courier-imap-ssl.service - Courier
IMAP Daemon (SSL)...
Aug 23 20:54:18 ada systemd[1]: courier-imap-ssl.service: Deactivated
successfully.
Aug 23 20:54:18 ada systemd[1]: Stopped courier-imap-ssl.service - Courier
IMAP Daemon (SSL).
* What led up to the situation?
Just a normal `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade`.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I am going to try to figure out which version os GNU TLS was running
before and manually downgrade.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'),
(500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_AU.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages courier-imap depends on:
ii courier-authlib 0.72.4-3
ii courier-base 1.4.1-6
ii debconf 1.5.91
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libcourier-unicode8 2.3.2-1
ii libgdbm6t64 1.24-2
ii libidn2-0 2.3.8-4
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.10.3-3
courier-imap recommends no packages.
Versions of packages courier-imap suggests:
pn courier-doc <none>
pn imap-client <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/courier/imapd.cnf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/courier/imapd.cnf'
-- debconf-show failed
