Autor: Michael Robinson Fecha: A: Philip Crewdson Cc: Chris Thompson, exim-users Asunto: Re: Local delivery problems on FreeBSD
Philip Crewdson writes: >>so it can't create a <file>.lock file. You might be able to circumvent this
>>by specifying use_lockfile=no on the transport definition, but read the spec
>>*very* carefully first. >OK. I've made the mail directory world-writable, which is probably some
>terrible security risk, but it has helped. Now I don't get permission
>denied, but I still get the Retry message as below...
For BSD4.4 systems, I seem to recall the proper protocol for delivery into
/var/mail involves flock(). And /var/mail should be mode 1777 (sticky bit,
world writable).
-- smrf
