Re: [exim] Permissions problem

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] Permissions problem
On 11/09/2007, Charlie Clark <charlie@???> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> since Sunday evening after updating Debian I've been having trouble
> with Exim: mail is not being distributed to local users.
>
> From the log I can see why this is happening:
> 2007-09-11 11:05:11 1IV3YE-0001MQ-Fe == user@???
> R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (13): Permission denied: failed to
> chdir to /home/confixx/user
>
> But I can't seem to resolve the problem. I've checked the permissions
> on the directories and they don't seem to have much effect.
>
> My users all belong to the group "poponly" and Exim4 is running as
> Debian-Exim
>
> Very grateful for any help on this.


Since your problem stems directly from something you/Debian did to
your system, you're probably better off asking on the Debian Exim
mailing list at

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users

Peter



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