On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Pollywog wrote:
> I thought of that, that it might be causing my problems as well, so I took a
> look to see if the sticky bit was set. Well, I was even more confused to find
> that Exim is not using /var/spool/mail.
/var/spool/mail is where Exim puts users' mailboxes by default. If it
ain't delivering, it ain't putting anything there.
> I do not know where the mail is going, just that it is being deferred.
It is sitting on Exim's internal spool, which is the "input" directory
inside Exim's private spool area - called /var/spool/exim or whatever
you may have configured. You can see what is there by running the
command "exim -bp".
> Is
> /var/spool/mail the default mail directory? Should I put user directories
> there?
It is where user mailboxes are put *by the default configuration*. You
can change this to put them where you want - but of course this must be
the same place that your User Agents (Pine, mh, Elm, whatever) expect to
find them. See the comments in the default runtime configuration file.
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