Permission error passwordeval and awk

[averter]

Hello,

I don't know where else to ask for help with an issue that I'm having with msmtp. Basically, for some reason I get a permission error when using passwordeval. I've opened a question on SO, tried lots of things, but got no answer/result so far. Can you please help me or point me towards someone who might be able to help? Thank you in advance.

[marlam]

Inexplicable 'permission denied' errors are often caused by an overly restrictive AppArmor profile for msmtp.

Unfortunately this often happens on Debian and Ubuntu and it confuses many users.

[averter]

Thank you very much for that. After disabling the apparmor profile for msmtp it worked, and I've learned something new out of this. Probably this happened because in my new OS version they have become more stringent with msmtp? Regardless, you have my thanks. If you can/want to answer my question on SO I will happily accept it/give you the points the question is worth. The commands I've used are

sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp

[marlam]

I'm not on SO; if you could add the solution there it might help people finding the problem faster.