On 3 May 2005 12:58:42 -0000, hesco@??? wrote:
>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
This is wrong on a Debian system. /var/mail needs to be root:mail
1775. exim doesn't run as Debian-exim while delivering-
>after I chown root:Debian-exim, and chmod g+w to it.
That was wrong.
>/var/spool/mail looks like:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-04-01 23:26 mail -> ../mail
That is a legacy link which is not used any more. I'd let it remain,
it doesn't hurt.
>All clues appreciated. Thanks,
More Clue about exim on Debian might be found on the pkg-exim4-users
Mailing list which is prominently mentioned in nearly all available
docs, including the package descriptions.
Greetings
Marc
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