On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Cronfy wrote:
> > I am upgrading exim from 4.54 to current version 4.66 under FreeBSD 6.0.
> > I noticed that spool header files changed. The documentation says: "The second
> > line of the -H file contains the login name for the uid of the process that
> > called Exim to read the message. ... For a message received over TCP/IP,
> > it is normally the Exim user."
> > In exim 4.54 there was "mailnull 26 6" - exim user that was configured to be used
> > by exim. But exim 4.66 stores "root 0 0" instead.
>
> I am sorry for repeating my message, but I need at least any answer
> for my question. Please tell me either I have to reexplain everything
> making my (probably bad) english more understandable, or my question
> does not makes any sense at all.
>
> So, is there anything wrong with my header files that have "root 0 0" record
> in second line or it is fine?
If the message was submitted by root, then it is fine. If the message
came over TCP/IP then it is unusual, because the Exim daemon is not
normally run as root. What is the output from
exim -bP exim_user
? What user is your exim daemon running as?
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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