Re: [Exim] Does anyone know the difference?

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Author: John Horne
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Does anyone know the difference?
On 08-Aug-2002 at 16:21:19 Daniel Seehof wrote:
> does anyone know the difference between exim accepting mails from another
> server and delivering them immediately and putting them in the queue and
> waiting for the next queue runner to deliver them.
> I'm running exim with the arguments "-bd -q5m", and for some reason exim
> still puts all mail in the queue with the msglog message "defer (-1)" and
> "unable to set gid=101 or uid=501 (euid=501)". Those are the IDs exim is
> running under and the IDs the virtual mailfiles belong to. Next time the
> queue runner passes by, all mail is delivered without any problems.
>

Simply going by the 'unable to set' bit, is exim suid root?


John.

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