Package: courier-mta Version: 0.75.0-18 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Recently I decided to upgrade courier (mta and imap) on one of my mail servers. It was a disaster. The quality of these packages is abysmal and dangerous. This is one of the many serious, grave, and critical bugs I ran into during that process. The following init script is broken: /etc/init.d/courier-mta The offening line is: DO_START=$(sed -ne 's/^ESMTPDSSLSTART=\([^[:space:]]*\)/\1/p' /etc/courier/esmtpd-msa | tr "A-Z" "a-z") This is the wrong configuration statement and file. The result will be either a broken system or worse an insecure system where a daemon is running when it should not be. Corrected: DO_START=$(sed -ne 's/^ESMTPDSTART=\([^[:space:]]*\)/\1/p' /etc/courier/esmtpd | tr "A-Z" "a-z") -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages courier-mta depends on: ii courier-authlib 0.66.4-7 ii courier-base 0.75.0-18 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii libc6 2.22-7 ii libcourier-unicode1 1.4-2 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-14 ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-13.1 ii libidn11 1.32-3 ii libnet-cidr-perl 0.17-1 ii libperl5.22 5.22.1-10 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-14 ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.3 courier-mta recommends no packages. Versions of packages courier-mta suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mail-reader] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-2 ii courier-doc 0.75.0-18 ii courier-filter-perl 0.200+ds-4 pn couriergrey <none> ii emacs24 [mail-reader] 24.5+1-6+b2 ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.5.24-1+b1 ii s-nail [mail-reader] 14.8.8-1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/courier/aliases/system [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/courier/aliases/system' /etc/courier/courierd changed [not included] /etc/courier/dsnheader.txt changed [not included] /etc/courier/esmtpauthclient [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/courier/esmtpauthclient' /etc/courier/esmtpd changed [not included] /etc/courier/esmtpd-msa changed [not included] /etc/courier/esmtpd-ssl changed [not included] /etc/courier/esmtpd.cnf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/courier/esmtpd.cnf' /etc/courier/smtpaccess/default [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/courier/smtpaccess/default' /etc/init.d/courier-mta changed [not included] /etc/init.d/courier-mta-ssl changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded
