Re: [Exim] help with mailscanner and exim

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Author: Gerald T. Freymann
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To: exim-users
CC: sheldonh
Subject: Re: [Exim] help with mailscanner and exim
On 12 Feb 2002 at 17:09, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> The problem was fixed in the ports tree on 2001/12/11, after the
> addition of the new mailnull and smmsp users for sendmail.


Thanks Sheldon. I have exim-mysql-3.33_5 but I see my ports report
indicates it needs updating (port has 3.34_1)

I think my production box is already using the newer version but
obviously I can upgrade that too.

> 1) Make sure all instances of the exim user are changed to mailnull
> 2) chown -R mailnull /var/spool/exim /var/log/exim
> 3) If you use newsyslog(8) to rotate your exim log files, make sure
> that newsyslog.conf specifies the correct username to use
> 4) If you read special files (like TLS certificates) or databases as
>    user exim, you'll need to make additional changes.


All of the above applies. I do hook into mysql for virtual domain email.
No problem changing from user exim to mailnull I presume?

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