I've come to understand how the spool folder and the
such work after reading much documentation. Exim has
it's own queue that it puts mail in, and there is some
device (in the configuration file somewhere... THIS IS
THE PART WHERE I NEED HELP) that tells the mail how to
get to /var/mail/$user (in my case on a RH machine) so
that the user can read thier mail from the machine.
In my exim 4.04 configuration file I removed 'root'
from the never_users list and all the outbound mail
that I had tried to send from various users got to
it's destination. I don't know if this is normal but
I know that it worked when I removed it. I checked
the msglog/log file to see that there were several
error messages. In one log file I found a bunch of
lines that said "2002-06-03 12:50:23
nomercy@??? <NoMercy@???>
R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission
denied: failed to chdir to /home/nomercy". Then in
another file I found something even more evil sounding
than that... "nomercy@??? R=localuser
T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied:
creating lock file hitching post
/var/mail/nomercy.lock.eutonian.3cfbce75.0000261a
(euid=502 egid=502)". Now that I found rather
offensive. Can anyone tell me what that second error
means and what I have to change to get my mail to be
delivered from my queue to my users local mailboxes.
this is my first time using exim so I appreciate your
guys help. Oh, my config file...
http://www.eutonian.com/links/configure. Thanks
again,
Brandon
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