Here at the University Computing Services at University of British Columbia
(UBC) we are trying out Exim 1.59 on the staff system - running Solaris 2.4.
The system was implemented yesterday (Monday 30th December) and is doing
very well.
However we have encountered a problem with the delivery of messages to an
archive file of a mailling list (created by the MajorDomo system). The
archive file in question is actually a symbolic link to another file as
shown below;
$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/maillists/interchange/archive
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 May 17 1996 /usr/local/lib/maillists/interchange/archive -> /usr/spool/lists/interchange
$ ls -l /usr/local/spool/lists/interchange
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daemon mail 6381675 Dec 30 00:46 /usr/spool/lists/interchange
(Admittedly the protections for the actual file is more than is desired but is
I understand a manifestation of running the old Sendmail system (?))
The delivery to the archive file is frozen with the following entry in the
main log
1996-12-31 09:17:06 0vewCQ-0007f0-00 == /usr/local/lib/maillists/interchange/archive <interchange@???> T=file defer (-5): mailbox /usr/local/lib/maillists/interchange/archive has wrong uid or gid (symlink)
1996-12-31 09:17:06 0vewCQ-0007f0-00 Frozen
I suspect that I have done a configuration error but I cannot spot it - any
ideas ? Relevant Transport Configuration is given below
# file:
# transport definition to handle file addresses generated by alias
# and forward directors (set by the main configuration variable
# address_file_transport)
file:
driver = appendfile;
allow_symlink,
user = root
Pointers much appreciated......
W.
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William Craven Email: William.Craven@???
University Computing Services Tel: +1-604-822-8955
University of British Columbia FAX: +1-604-822-5116
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2
