[EXIM] permission denied on filtering?

I tried putting together a global Melissa-filter (I had previously used a
userbase one) and I get this when it tries to trap something:

1999-03-31 19:19:49 10SNiX-0000Ay-00 Error in message_filter file: failed to
open filter log file "/etc/exim/filter.log/melissa.log": Permission denied
(euid=505 egid=510)

[root@soviet d]# grep 505 /etc/passwd; ls -al /etc/exim/filter.log
exim:x:505:510:RHS Linux User:/etc/exim:/bin/false
total 2
drw-r--r--   2 exim     exim         1024 Mar 31 19:18 ./
drwxrwxr-x   3 exim     exim         1024 Mar 31 18:54 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 exim     exim            0 Mar 31 19:18 melissa.log

what am I missing?

[root@soviet d]# grep exim_user /usr/exim/configure
exim_user = exim



TIA,
Dominique L. Bouix

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