[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#593814: fetchmail starts too early in init scripts

rpnpif rpnpif at free.fr
Sat Aug 21 08:37:29 UTC 2010


Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.17-4
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

/etc/init.d/fetchmail has 
# Should-Start:      $mail-transport-agent exim4
but fetchmail starts very early and failed to deliver mails because 
The mail transport agent is not ready.
This issue could loss mails.
I suggest that /etc/init.d/fetchmail has :

1.
# Required-Start:    $network $local_fs $remote_fs $syslog $mail-transport-agent
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $mail-transport-agent

2.
Fetchmail does not need usually to start immediately after the boot. A delay
of few minutes (one ?) before the fetchmail start could improve security of 
delivering (for ie : to enable a good antispam starting).
.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser               3.112              add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils           3.4                Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-2           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2            1.41.12-2          common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2      1.8.3+dfsg~beta1-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libkrb5-3             1.8.3+dfsg~beta1-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8o-1           SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.2-23.1           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20090814   Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
pn  fetchmailconf                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.7.1-1    High-performance mail transport ag
pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/fetchmail changed [not included]

-- no debconf information







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