#285172 ssh: Mail problem during install, should depend on mail-transport-agent?

Package:
debconf
Source:
debconf
Submitter:
Cyril Bouthors
Date:
2026-08-24 17:55:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#285172#5
Date:
2004-12-10 16:45:43 UTC
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During a Fully Automatic Installation (fai) of Debian sid, I'm
installing all the packages at the same time, especially
exim4-daemon-heavy and ssh.

I'm getting the following error:

Unpacking ssh (from .../ssh_1%3a3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4_i386.deb) ...
exim: failed to find uid for user name "Debian-exim"
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1

I think it's because exim4-daemon-heavy has been unpacked but not
configured yet and ssh is trying to send a mail.

I think ssh should depend on mail-transport-agent or something.
#285172#10
Date:
2004-12-20 15:52:47 UTC
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reassign 285172 debconf
thanks

ssh doesn't send mail, during installation or otherwise. debconf might,
though ...

Cheers,
#285172#17
Date:
2004-12-23 22:28:59 UTC
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Colin Watson wrote:

The error message is not one produced by debconf, which takes care to
not fail if /usr/bin/mail does not work:

                unless (open(MAIL, "|-")) { # child
                        exec("mail", "-s", $title, Debconf::Config->admin_email) or return '';
                }

...

                close MAIL or return '';

If it hits one of those failure cases, it will not mark the note as
seen, so it will be displayed in future debconf runs.

AFAIK that's the only mail sending code in debconf, and it cannot result
in that behavior.
#285172#22
Date:
2004-12-23 22:31:05 UTC
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Colin Watson wrote:

Looking at this again, it's not clear to me if you used "error" in the
sense I assumed, namely "exited nonzero and crashed the dpkg run". If
you mean that /usr/bin/mail printed that error message and the install
continued, then that would fit with debconf's code, and I think that
it's behavior of not setting the seen flag in this case, but not trying
harder to display/send the note is acceptable.
#285172#27
Date:
2004-12-23 23:05:48 UTC
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That's what I understand to be happening, yes.
#285172#32
Date:
2020-08-03 20:01:48 UTC
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#285172#37
Date:
2026-08-24 17:53:09 UTC
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