On Sat, 25 May 2002, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm attempting to deliver all mail to thisdomain.com to a user
> called "user1". I have created a transport like this:
>
> this_transport:
> driver = appendfile
> file = /var/mail/user1
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
> delivery_date_add
> user = mail
>
> and I have a special router like this:
> this_router:
> driver = domainlist
> transport = this_transport
> route_list = thisdomain.com
>
> So, this all works, and exim attempts to deliver mail to said mailbox, but
> it has the following problem in the logs (and in a message back to me):
>
> 2002-05-25 13:00:36 17BeuC-0008IT-00 == yuck@???
> T=this_transport defer (-6): mailbox /var/mail/user1 has wrong uid (1006
> != 8)
>
> 8 being the uid of the "mail" user, 1006 being the uid of "user1". How do
> I solve this problem? Why does it care that it's the wrong uid? How does
> this normally work? If I change it to deliver it as the user "user1", then
> it has a permission denied error when trying to create the lock file
> hitching post.
Change it back to user = user1, and then do :
chmod 777 /var/mail
chmod +t /var/mail
>
> This is exim 3.35-1 on debian woody.
>
> Please reply to me explicity as I am not on the list.
> Thanks in advance!
> -Josiah
>
>
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