[Exim] problems with exim

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Author: Ryan Plume
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] problems with exim
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Hi everyone.

I'm trying to set up exim for the first time and have come across several problems. After sending mail to folks with accounts, it always gets returned.

At first it always returned saying that it didn't have permission to write to mainlog. I fixed the problem, but now I'm getting returned mail with a new error:

 Delay reason: SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
    host a.mx.icai-online.com [128.121.254.205]: 421 Unexpected log failure, please try later



Also, I was told to check what kind of errors I receive when I use debugging commands. This is what happened:

[3:57pm]# exim -d 9 -v -M 10sTpH-00064C-00
Exim version 3.33 debug level 9 uid=0 gid=0
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: DB 2.4.14: (6/2/98)
Caller is an admin user
Caller is a trusted user
set_process_info: 13382 delivering specified messages
delivering message 10sTpH-00064C-00
set_process_info: 13382 delivering 10sTpH-00064C-00
LOG: 0 MAIN
Spool file 10sTpH-00064C-00-D not found
LOG: 0 PANIC DIE
Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/exim_mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=12
2002-11-04 15:59:57 10sTpH-00064C-00 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/exim_mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=12
exim: could not open panic log - aborting: original error above
search_tidyup called


Any idea what's wrong?

I am also confused as to why it's using a uid of 8.. My "mail" account uses the following:
mail:x:509:12::/var/empty:/bin/bash

Thanks,

Ryan
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