on Saturday, November 9, 2002 22:03 you wrote:
ssnm> 2002-11-09 20:40:47 18AcPP-0000NO-00 <= root@??? U=root P=local S=921
ssnm> 2002-11-09 20:40:48 18AcPP-0000NO-00 == seberino@??? R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post
ssnm> /var/mail/seberino.lock.spawar.navy.mil.3dcd72d0.000005ac (euid=501 egid=501)
ssnm> I got the same "Permission denied" before I changed the hostname
ssnm> so nothing got fixed?!?!?
Changing the hostname won't help in your case. The error message is very
clear about that.
ssnm> What else do i need 2 do?
exim has no rights to write to /var/mail.
Maybe add a 'group = mail' to the local_delivery-transport. Or add the user
running exim to the group owning the /var/mail-directory.
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