Package: systemd-cron Version: 1.5.17-3 Severity: important cron-failure@ is using DynamicUser=yes, however this causes a silent delivery failure when using exim4:
systemd[1]: Starting cron-failure@cron-monthly.service... mail_on_failure[328561]: 2021-11-01 14:11:23 1mhX5v-001NTN-LU Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim4//input//1mhX5v-001NTN-LU-D: Permission denied mail_on_failure[328561]: 2021-11-01 14:11:23 1mhX5v-001NTN-LU Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim4//input//1mhX5v-001NTN-LU-D: Permission denied mail_on_failure[328561]: 2021-11-01 14:11:23 1mhX5v-001NTN-LU Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim4//input//1mhX5v-001NTN-LU-D: Permission denied systemd[1]: cron-failure@cron-monthly.service: Deactivated successfully. systemd[1]: Finished cron-failure@cron-monthly.service. Combined with #992649, this makes systemd-cron silently broken on a debian configuration with the default mta. -- Package-specific info: -- output of systemd-delta -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages systemd-cron depends on: ii libc6 2.32-4 ii python3 3.9.2-3 ii systemd-sysv 249.5-1 Versions of packages systemd-cron recommends: ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.95-2 systemd-cron suggests no packages.