Package: cron-apt Version: 0.9.6 Severity: normal When setting XHEADERS in the cron-apt config, cron-apt (or rather, mailx) fails to send any messages.
Specifically, I have | XHEADER1="X-Cron-Apt: foo" in /etc/cron-apt/config. This causes errors when cron-apt tries to send the mail. The type of error depends on the version of mailx the is installed (s-nail, mailutils, heirloom-mailx, bsd-mailx), and say different things like "Cannot parse address <TAB> -a <TAB>", "failed with error 1" (very descriptive, that one), "X-Cron-Apt: contains invalid character ':'" and "X-Cron-Apt: foo: No such file or directory". I'm pretty sure this had to do with different versions of the mailx alternatives using different syntaxes (and therefore not being real alternatives in the first place). I'll be filing a separate bug about that issue. To avoid this mess, it might be better for cron-apt just to send the mails using sendmail -t directly, instead of relying on these mailx tools. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cron-apt depends on: ii apt 1.3.1 Versions of packages cron-apt recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3 ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-128 ii liblockfile1 1.09-6 ii mailutils [mailx] 1:2.99.99-1.1+b1 ii s-nail [mailx] 14.8.14-1 cron-apt suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/cron-apt/action.d/3-download changed [not included] /etc/cron-apt/config changed [not included] /etc/cron.d/cron-apt changed [not included] -- no debconf information
