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Re: sequence numbers mismatch


From: Jordi Mallach
Subject: Re: sequence numbers mismatch
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:07:37 +0100
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El dc. 13 de 01 de 2021 a les 16:27 +0200, en/na Sergey Poznyakoff va
escriure:
> Jordi Mallach <jordi@mallach.net> ha escrit:
> 
> > I believe this is the same bug report that just got filed in
> > Debian:
> 
> The two have nothing in common.
> 
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980042
> 
> Can't reproduce it.  Attached is the minimal script that attempts to
> reproduce the claimed behavior.




>   It creates a mailbox mbox1 with one
> message and attempts to move mail from it to mbox2 using movemail.
> The sizes of each mailbox before and after movemail are printed
> using wc.  Here's what I get running it:

It turns out this is related to the default permissions of /var/mail
(2775 root:mail) on Debian-based systems. With the rewrite of mbox,
this is now broken on this scenario.

A complete analisys by Pierrick Chanteux can be found here.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980042#16

Jordi
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Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
Debian Project




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