Re: [Exim] Delivering local mail fails

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Georg Weissenbacher
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Delivering local mail fails
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Georg Weissenbacher wrote:

> I've problems delivering local mails. When calling exim -v -bt -d9 georg
> exim tells me that it cannot stat the home directory of georg
> (permissions of /home/georg: drwxr-x---, georg.georg), there's no .forward
> and no .procmailrc file. I've tried to set the directory to 777, but this
> doesn't make any difference. ignore_eacces doesn't have any effect.
> require_files =
> ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail


(1) Is georg's uid 1000 (as shown in your debug output)? I suspect that
it is.

(2) What are the permissions on the superior directories, i.e. /home?

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