Package: ssmtp Version: 2.64-1 Severity: normal
Hello, I am just hit by this bug. I understand the fix, and agree with the problem described in #500454. However the error message: "Fails to send any mail with send-mail: Cannot open mailhub:25" is quite not helpful for debugging this. The first solution would to have a more explicit error message: "File /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf exists but cannot be read, try adding $USER to group mail" for example The second solution, for a smoother upgrade is to split configuration between ssmtp.conf and ssmtp.conf.secret. This require more work but will allow people that don't use SMTP AUTH to keep the same ssmtp.conf file and for the other to not disclose their information (they should be stored in .secret). Then there is 3 cases: - no Auth* keyword in ssmtp.conf -> keep it this way - package ssmtp detect Auth* in ssmtp.conf -> either move these fields to .secret or issue a warning - program ssmtp.conf detect that .secret exists but cannot be read -> error message "File /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.secret exists but cannot be read, try adding $USER to group mail" Note that I run several servers that communicate with me only through mails. Due to the inability to send mails with ssmtp, I was not able to detect that there was a problem. I think this is a quite big issue that should be upgraded to severity:grave (but this is my POV). Thanks for maintaining ssmtp, this is a great tool Regards Sylvain Le Gall -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ssmtp depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ssmtp recommends no packages. ssmtp suggests no packages. -- debconf information: ssmtp/overwriteconfig: true ssmtp/mailname: * ssmtp/mailhub: smtp.gallu.homelinux.org * ssmtp/fromoverride: true * ssmtp/hostname: yocto.gallu.homelinux.org * ssmtp/root: postmaster * ssmtp/rewritedomain: gallu.homelinux.org * ssmtp/port: 25 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
