Re: [Exim] mail dissapearing .. ?

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Author: Toby Coleridge
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] mail dissapearing .. ?
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:57:32AM -0800, Toby Coleridge wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:23:43PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:38:14AM -0800, Toby Coleridge wrote:
> > > At the moment mail is picked up looked and the passed back to the remote
> > > host. Not very useful. here is some of the output from some more debuging:
> > [...]
> > > Could the rerite rules be causing problems? I need these to rewrite
> > > outging headers from matjc@localhost to toby@???. As some
> > > programs dont do this properly.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.10/doc/html/spec_30.html#IX1609
> >
> > MBM
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Byng-Maddick         <mbm@???>           http://colondot.net/

> >
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> >
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>
> Matthew,
>
> Thanks for your help, the mail is know staying internally ..
>
> getting close now I think I have the following in the panic log :
>
> 2002-11-17 16:51:49 18DSeD-00045B-03 internal problem in userforward router (rec
> ipient is matjc@localhost): failure to transfer data from subprocess
> 2002-11-17 16:51:52 18DSeG-00045B-00 unable to set gid=500 or uid=500 (euid=8):
> userforward router (recipient is matjc@localhost)
>
> and lots of
>
> 2002-11-17 16:56:00 18DSeH-00045B-01 == matjc@localhost routing defer (-51): ret
> ry time not reached
>
> i mainlog but I pressume thats because of whats in the paniclog.
>
> Thanks
> Toby
>
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>
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I hae made sure that that the exim binary has setuid bit set:

ls -l /usr/local/exim/bin/exim-4.10-2
-rwsr-xr-x    1 mail     mail       508017 Nov 17 02:48 /usr/local/exim/bin/exim-4.10-2


this is all I could find in documentation ..

Toby