On 3 Jul 2003, Cosmin Lichi wrote:
> local_delivery:
> driver = append_file
> file = var/mail/$local_part
> .... (delivery date, envelope add)
> transport_filter = /usr/local/test
>
> where test is a simple program that
> reads the input and write it to output.
>
> When I send a mail from root to one user
> it\'s not working...
> The error message is:
> \"Broken pipe: error while writing to /var/mail/user\"
> But my program \"test\" is not executed (it writes
> a debug message in a file, when is executed).
> When I send a mail from root to root is working
> without any problem.
> Can anybody tell me what is the problem please?
Almost certainly a permissions problem. Use exim -d to see what is going
on - it will tell you what user it is running things as. My guess is
that it is running the delivery (and hence the transport filter) as a
user that doesn't have permission to write to the file.
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