Thanx:
The answer of my troubles were solved changing:
/var/mail/${local part}
for
/var/spool/mail/${local part}
For more info the Operating System I am using is Slackware 3.4. So
it is time get on the road with this Exim. Thanks for the Help.
regards,
Rolando Riley
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Rolando Riley (Industrial) wrote:
>
> > 1998-04-23 13:53:00 rriley@??? <rriley@???>:
> > local_delivery transport deferred: no such file or directory: creating
> > lock file hitching post
> > /var/mail/rriley.lock.ns.fii.utp.ac.pa.353f8e22.0000010f
> >
> > I looked to the /var/mail discovering that there is no such
> > directory so I created it trying to solve the problem with no succes.
> > I suppose the answer is on the following lines which I don't
> > understand at all:
> >
> > This is how I have set the "configure" file
> >
> > local delivery:
> > driver= appendfile
> > file= var/mail/${local part}
> > # group = mail
> > # mode = 0660
> >
> > Why Exim is trying to creat a lock file?
>
> Because that is the traditional way of locking mail folders. You can
> disable it - see the use_lockfile option - but only do this if you are
> *sure* that the MUAs that will use the file also do fcntl locking.
>
> file= var/mail/${local part}
>
> I presume that really was
>
> file= /var/mail/${local_part}
>
> You should set there whatever is standard on your operating system. Some
> operating systems call it /var/spool/mail. You normally need to set the
> "sticky bit" (the "t" bit) on shared mail directories like this. We have
>
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 212992 Apr 27 15:16 /var/mail/
>
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