Michael Bonnice wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am in desperate need of some help with an exim server.
>
> I am running Exim version 4.34 which I recently upgraded from version 4.24
> using gentoo's package manager portage. The upgrade seemed to work fine and
> the new binary started up fine. However whenever I went to send mail to an
> external domain I got a rejection message saying:
>
> Delay reason: User 0 set for remote_smtp transport is on the
> fixed_never_users list
>
> The mail would just sit in the queue and every 24 hours I would get this
> message.
>
> I looked it up and found this:
>
> "The list of users specified by never_users is not, however, the complete
> list; the build-time configuration in Local/Makefile has an option called
> FIXED_NEVER_USERS specifying a list that cannot be overridden. The contents
> of never_users are added to this list. By default FIXED_NEVER_USERS also
> specifies root. "
>
> I was running exim_user as root, which is now on the FIXED_NEVER_USERS list.
>
> I have tried changing the exim_user to exim and now I cant authenticate to
> send mail - I have smtp authentication enabled.
>
> The same happens with user mail.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>
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>
From experience: Don't emerge exim. Download the tarball and do it
yourself. But this thing is actually a GOOD thing. You DON'T want to
process ANY mail as root! BIG SECURITY HOLE! What should happen is that
you are delivering mail to users as that user. Something to check in
your exim.conf that may help:
in your local_user router, or your local_delivery transport. Do you have
a user specified? i.e.
user = <value>
if so, is it a fixed user, like
user = mail
or is it a variable, i.e.
user = $local_part
the best setting is the last one. Then Exim changes to the user,
delivers the mail, and changes back to the exim user (as defined in the
Makefile).
--
-- Dan
