Re: [Exim] Problem on one of our systems

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Author: Chris Bayliss
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To: mallet
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Problem on one of our systems
>
> Chris Bayliss rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > Unable to get root to set uid 267 and gid 131 for local delivery to www:
> > uid=799 euid=799
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> There's your problem. Permissions, looks like. To deliver to postmaster,
> mailer-daemon, www, nobody etc, just alias the whole kit and kaboodle to root.
>
> That should solve this problem I think.
>


It happens with every user. Aliasing them all to root may create one or
two other problems although it does have a certain appeal to it!