Author: John (TJ) Penton Date: To: Nico Erfurth CC: jgolden, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim 4.10 is not recognizing local UNIX mail boxes
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> jgolden@??? wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I currently have Exim 4.10 installed on a Sun Ultra Enterprise -2, with
> > Solaris 8 as my OS.
> > My configure file passes all tests with no errors. This box is a secondary
> > MTA for the domain,
> > and also main mail source for the UNIX users here with local mail boxes in
> > /var/mail/{user name}.
> > The problem I encounter is that mail does not get delivered to local mail
> > boxes, it is deferred, due to the following
> > error report;
> >
> > 32:49 182VN3-0003gt-00 == {user name}@??? R=unix_users
> > T=local_delivery defer (-6): mailbox /var/mail/{user name} has wrong uid
> > (231 != 1069)
> >
> > Now my mail user I set up for Exim upon building the configuration is exim.
> > user id for exim is 1069
> > group is mail and group id is 6.
> >
> > Need some help on this issue in resolving this group and user id.
>
> Set in your transport or router
>
> uid=$local_part
Or:
chgrp mail /var/mail/*
chmod g+rw /var/mail/*
Nico's solution is probably better.
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