Thanks everyone for you help!
This is the exact problem I had.
(Kevin came up with the same fix)
Everything seems to be pretty peachy!
Thanks,
BJ
>From: Bradford Carpenter <jbc@???>
>To: Blazing Media <blazingmedia@???>
>CC: exim-users@???
>Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: [Exim] All mail being rejected all of a sudden. . .]
>Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 20:17:39 -0800
>
>On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 18:41:19 -0700, Blazing Media wrote:
>
> > Well, my exim is owned by root/wheel.
>[snip]
> > I'm running this on OS X, and the courier user is set up as 100/100.
> > I'm clueless as to what the problem could be. I can upload my entire
> > configure file if necesscary.
>
>You don't mention a critical setting that Kevin brought up: is your
>exim binary SetUID root? Can't get to this setting with the default OS
>X Get Info: you either need to use the command line or a utility like
>XRay <http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/index.html>.
>
>This got me on OS X. If you're running Panther, chances are you've
>moved Postfix's sendmail file aside and replaced it with a symlink to
>the exim binary named "sendmail". But when you repair permissions, the
>system reads the permissions for the *Postfix* "sendmail" from the BSD
>receipt file and applies it to the *exim* "sendmail" symlink. This has
>the end effect of *turning off the suid bit* for exim! With this bit
>unset, you will get the sort of permissions errors you describe.
>
>Only way I found to keep repairing permissions from hosing the exim
>binary's suid bit is to set the system immutable bit for the binary
>(you can do "sudo chflags schg /usr/sbin/sendmail" in Terminal). Be
>forewarned: it takes booting into single user mode and entering a few
>commands to undo this setting, so be sure you know what you're doing
>before you jump into this!
>
>Brad
>
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