Re: [exim] Exim not delivering to system box

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: hesco
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim not delivering to system box
* hesco@??? <hesco@???> [20050503 15:59]: wrote:
> Hello:
>
> This is a new installation.  And for some reason, exim4 is
> not working out of the box.  I installed with the Debian
> Sarge net-installer.  I gave /var/mail its own partition.
> Its permissions are:
>     drwxrwxr-x   3 root Debian-exim  1024 2005-05-03 01:23 mail

>
> after I chown root:Debian-exim, and chmod g+w to it.
>
> /var/spool/mail looks like:  
>     lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root 7 2005-04-01 23:26 mail -> ../mail


I wouldn't bother doing any symlinking into anywhere else. It'd
be simple to just

chmod 1777 /var/mail and let Exim deliver to it, even without doing
anything to the exim.conf.


        cheers
       - wash 
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