I am having some difficulties with local delivery configuration in exim 0.55.
There are two separate problems:
1) One user's mailbox is a symlink to a file in his home directory. I
added allow_symlink, as follows:
local_delivery:
driver = appendfile;
allow_symlink = true
group = mail
mode = 0660
file = /var/mail/${local_part}
However, all messages to this user are still getting frozen with:
mailbox /var/mail/mblc has wrong uid or gid (symlink)
Now, this file has the correct permissions, as far as I can see:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Mar 11 18:38 /var/mail/mblc ->
/cys/people/mblc/MAIL.mblc
-rw-rw---- 1 mblc mail 1760 Aug 16 16:23
/cys/people/mblc/MAIL.mblc
What am I missing?
2) The second problem is a related one, involving file permissions on a
local delivery also. In this case, one of the system's aliases directs a
copy to a file:
scop-site: :include:/cys/people/scop/scop-site
And the file includes a delivery to a mailbox file:
/cys/people/scop/scop-site.mail
Which has permissions as follows:
-rw-rw---- 1 scop mail 12948 Aug 5 16:24
/cys/people/scop/scop-site.mail
I get log entries like:
Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_file transport set a
uid for local delivery of /cys/people/scop/scop-site.mail
The address_file transport was set as:
address_file:
driver = appendfile;
group = mail
and the system_aliases was the default one that came with exim:
system_aliases:
driver = aliasfile;
file = /etc/aliases,
search_type = lsearch
I tried setting user in address_file to exim, but then just got:
address_file transport deferred: mailbox /cys/people/scop/scop-site.mail has
wrong uid or gid
Which isn't really any better.
How do you get deliveries of this kind to occur properly? Surely since
the program as exim.mail has sufficient rights to write to this file it
should be allowed to do so? Why does it insist on a uid match as well,
which is not easy to obtain?
Or have I missed something glaringly obvious here as well.
Thanks for any advice.
Tim.
