Re: [Exim] Exim ain't delivering maildirs

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Author: Greg Ward
Date:  
To: Nathan
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim ain't delivering maildirs
On 02 October 2001, Nathan said:
> 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.

[...]
> == 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


What user is Exim trying to deliver messages as? My guess is "nate",
not "mail" -- hence the error. You probably need to
chown -R nate /var/mail/mylinuxbox.org/nate

        Greg