>No, that's not right the right track. Exim has in fact been started: >
>> > daemon started: pid=5289, -q30m, listening for SMTP on port 25
>
>He can't find his spool directory (and incidentally whatever is beneath
>it).
>
>An unmodifies exim compile gives the default /usr/exim/spool and the
>logs in ./log . Local/Makefile can be used to change things.
>
>Mind you, the same compile would give the default exim bin as
>/usr/exim/bin/exim .
It seems the "clever thing" to do would be to put debians exim on hold, and
just mimmic the uid/gid/spoolfile settings in a custom compile?