On Sun 24 May, D wrote:
... sending two copies to me plus one to the list ... a bit of overkill,
perhaps?
> Hello, I found this message between Chad and Philip on DejaNews and
> I'm having the same problem. It has helped to solve my problem
> because i now know why it is not working. However, when it is trying
> to write the lock hitching file to my /var/spool/mail directory, it is
> trying to write it as the user zzz, however, only root and mail have
> r/w access to the /var/spool/mail directory .. well, to create a new
> file anyways. so there's a file
> rw-rw---- zzz mail 0 somedate zzz
> but the perms for /var/spool/mail are
> rwxrwx--- root mail 0 somedate mail
>
> how do i go about solving this problem so zzz can write a lock
> hitching file (which I have no clue what it does) .. to the
> /var/spool/mail directory? =)
Set group=mail on your local_delivery director.
P.S. You aren't *really* running Exim 0.53 are you?
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