Author: Tom Ray [Lists] Date: To: Charlie Clark CC: exim-users@exim.org >> Exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Permissions problem
Charlie Clark 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.
>
> Charlie
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>
> Are you sure it's not an ownership issue? Are the directories and files
still owned by the exim user and group? Or do you have "poponly" as an
acceptable group in your Exim build?