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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Philip Crewdson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Delivering using gid (was Local delivery problems on FreeBSD)
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Philip Crewdson wrote:

> As a result of the various postings on the list, I have decided that what I
> would *like* to do is have exim deliver as user 'exim' group 'mail', to
> user mailboxes set 660 with 'mail' as the group id, eg:
>
> -rw-rw----  1 philip  mail      0 Dec  2 13:05 philip

>
> (Any mailboxes created subsequently with 'exim' as the user can be spotted
> and reassigned -my system isn't that big.)
>
> So I've set it up to work like this. And sure enough exim creates new
> mailboxes as user 'exim' group 'mail'. But it won't append to existing
> mailboxes, saying they have the 'wrong uid or gid'. Meanwhile I can edit
> the files with vi quite happily as user 'exim' (member of group 'mail').
>
> Any thoughts, or shall I drop this idea?


What configuration options did you use for the localuser director and
the appendfile transport?


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