Quoth Sheldon Hearn on Thu, Jan 31, 2002:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:12:09 +0100, SWS wrote:
> > When I send a message to test user, Exim creates in /var/mail
> > user file:
> >
> > xxx:~$ ls -l /var/mail | grep test
> > -rw------- 1 test emp 1000 Jan 31 08:22 test
> > -- ---
> > ^
> > |
> > where emp is primary group of test user
> >
> > and privileges 600 for it.
>
> Your question is answered in the FAQ, in answer to the question:
>
> Why do I get the error "Permission denied: creating lock file
> hitching post" when Exim tries to do a local delivery?
Except the two possibilities mentioned there, there's the third
one, used by default on OpenBSD (and, I think, other BSDs as
well), where the directory mode and owners are:
1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 31 05:00 /var/mail
And the files are 0600, owned (and "grouped") by their respective
users:
3 -rw------- 1 vadik users 2720 Jan 31 18:16 vadik
Here, the solution is to set mode = 0600 and no_use_lockfile in
the localuser router (err, I'm using 3.953 here).
This example is taken straight from my home machine, Exim
installed an hour ago.
Vadik.
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