On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 15:00, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > Package: reportbug > Version: 5.1.1 > Severity: normal > > A recent problem between postfix and glibc packages causes sendmail to > fail to send email, signalling an error instead. The problem here, > is that when I tried to report it with reportbug, reportbug (with gtk2 ui) > just exited silently without telling me about the failure to send the > message. Luckily, I started reportbug from the command line rather than > from the menu, so I did get to see the: > > postdrop: fatal: getrlimit: Operation not permitted > sendmail: warning: command "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1 > sendmail: fatal: f...@bar.ca(2376): unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: > Success
is 'sendmail' returning "Success"? and maybe even an exit status of 0? reportbug do retry in case of a MTA error, not if it's badly behaving and return "everything is fine" when it's not. Please confirm this is what's happening. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
