At 16:52 30/03/98 +0100, you wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, comms wrote:
>
>> By executing 'exim -v -bt username' I get the following:
>> username@???
>> local delivery to username in domain mail.cis.co.uk
>> director = localuser, transport = local_delivery
>>
>> Why is it that when I send a mail message to username@??? it just
>> sits in the exim input spool directory and doesn't get delivered to the
>> user's mail file in /var/spool/mail?
>
>What does it say on the log? If that isn't helpful, what does it say if
>you try to run the delivery with debugging turned on? You can do this by
>
>exim -d -M <message id>
>
>Where the message id is something like 0yJgpe-0005dT-00 that you can
>find by listing the queue with "exim -bp". If that doesn't help, turn
>more debugging on by putting a number after -d, up to 9.
>
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>
>This did the trick. I didn't have the permissions set correctly on the
/var/spool/mail directory.
Many thanks
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