Re: [Exim] failed to create spool file

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Debbie Finucane
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] failed to create spool file
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Debbie Finucane wrote:

> Neither the mainlog or paniclog succeed in logging anything when this
> happens which is why I think it must be a permission problem.


Anything on syslog?

My suspicion is that you have two different exim binaries installed, and
there is confusion over which one is being run when mail is sent.

> However when the superuser sends the mail to a non privledged account


Have you tried sending the messages directly from exim? That is, with
commands like

exim -d df224@???
some message
.

? That will show debugging detail of what is going on.


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