Re: [Exim] am I losing mails???

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Author: Christian Kurz
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] am I losing mails???
On 00-04-27 Oliver Seidel wrote:
> I have produced a local system with a rather experimental setup: I use
> LDAP for authentication/Exim/IMAP and now exim seems to be acting up.
> I repeatedly got messages of the form


> 2000-04-26 22:00:02 12kXyc-0002H4-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//12kXyc-0002H4-00-D: Keine Berechtigung
> 2000-04-26 22:00:02 12kXyc-0002H4-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//12kXyc-0002H4-00-D: Keine Berechtigung
> 2000-04-26 22:00:02 12kXyc-0002H4-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//12kXyc-0002H4-00-D: Keine Berechtigung


> where "keine Berechtigung" means something like "no permission". I am
> using exim version 3.13.


> - Does this look obvious to anybody?


Yes, it seems like you have a problem with your permissions. Either exim
isn't installed correctly or your permission on /var/spool need to be
fixed, so that exim can write in the directory /var/spool/exim.

> - Is the "...input//12..." correct?


Yes, absolutely no problem.

Ciao
     Christian
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