* 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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