Re: [Exim] troubleshooting verify recipient

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Joshua Alexander
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] troubleshooting verify recipient
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Joshua Alexander wrote:

> During actual use, the perl function in question cannot open the file
> it needs... but during exim -bt, it opens it fine.
>
> WHY oh why would this happen. It makes zero sense to me. Might exim
> run with different permissions between -bt and -bh, or between
> verifying and actual sending?


Yes. -bh mimics message reception; Exim is running as "exim" at this
time. -bt mimics routing for sending; Exim is running as "root" at
this time.


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