Re: [Exim] Exim ain't delivering maildirs

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Author: Nathan
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim ain't delivering maildirs
Hello,

Does anyone know what could be causing this error
message? I'm having trouble getting Exim to deliver
to maildirs. I don't understand what the chdir error
is all about.

Thanks for your help,
Nathan

== nate@??? T=maildir_delivery defer (13):
Permission denied: cannot chdir to
/var/mail/mylinuxbox.org/nate
<= <> R=15o4ub-0001n2-00 U=mail P=local S=619
Frozen
== nate@??? <root@???>
T=maildir_delivery defer
Frozen

Permissions on my directories are as follows:
drwxr-xr-x   17 root     root         4096 Sep 21 21:10 var
drwxrwsr-x    4 mail     mail         4096 Sep 29 
17:02 var/mail
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Sep  7 
04:08 var/spool
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 Sep  7 
03:00 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail
drwxr-sr-x    4 mail     mail         4096 Sep 28 
19:04 /var/mail/mylinuxbox.org
drwx--S---    5 mail     mail         4096 Sep 27 
19:26 /var/mail/mylinuxbox.org/nate
drwx------    2 mail     mail         4096 Sep 27 
19:26 /var/mail/mylinuxbox.org/nate/cur
drwx------    2 mail     mail         4096 Sep 27 
19:26 /var/mail/mylinuxbox.org/nate/new
drwx------    2 mail     mail         4096 Sep 27 
19:26 /var/mail/mylinuxbox.org/nate/tmp


>In transport section of exim.conf:
> maildir_delivery:
> > driver = appendfile
> > no_from_hack
> > prefix = ""
> > suffix = ""
> > maildir_format
> > directory = /var/mail/mylinuxbox.org/${local_part}
> > create_directory