On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, dman wrote:
> I want to try out exim's filter capabilities and compare it to
> procmail. The hitch I'm having is that I'm not an admin on the
> school's system, so I'm trying to get exim to run just as my user,
> using my home directory as the "root" of the fs. I was able to edit
> Local/Makefile and build exim, but I get various permission errors.
> If I set EXIM_UID and EXIM_GID to my UID and GID, I get
>
> 2001-12-04 21:44:28 16BS2e-0006et-00 Unable to get root to set uid
> 3283 and gid 6 for local delivery to dsh8290: uid=3283 euid=3283
> 2001-12-04 21:44:28 16BS2e-0006et-00 failed to read delivery
> status for dsh8290@??? from delivery subprocess
Set security=unprivileged in your Exim configuration.
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