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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Conrad Wood
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] different permissions while setting up transport and writing spool
On 10 Jul 2002, Conrad Wood wrote:

> spool permissions: (mail uid=8, mail gid=8)
> cnw uid = 1001.
> So, I guess it attempts to deliver as the recipient user and write
> to the spool as the recipient. huh? how come it works atall? ;)


That's a mystery. What are the permissions on the Exim binary? They
should be something like this:

-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root     3675408 Jun 13 10:29 exim


> .. is the config file


.. contains no "security" setting. My guess is that your Exim binary's
permissions are wrong.

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