Re: [exim] Re: MBX format and UW-IMAP

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, David Snowden wrote:

> For the record:
>
> The initial problem with the lock appears to be that exim creates
> the lockfile in /tmp owned by the exim user and mode 0600.

This issue has arrived at the top of my "investigate" list. Now that I
read it again, I am confused. Exim should create the lock file owned by
the end user, not by exim. The transport is running as the end user, so
it cannot do anything else.

Unless ... you are using an unusual configuration. What is the
configuration of the appendfile transport that gives this problem? Are
you running the transport as exim for some reason?

Philip

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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.