[exim] crontab email errors

I have an inside and outside mta. The outside server succeeds the
inside server fails when executing this crontab command...

Any ideas on fix or what I can additionally log for more detail?

To make it more frustrating cron.daily/logwatch works on both servers.

crontab for root

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=gb-mail
HOME=/
5 5 * * * /usr/sbin/eximstats -nr -nt /var/log/exim/main.log.1


panic.log entry
2008-05-29 05:05:04 1K1e4G-0007oa-7J Failed to create spool file
/var/spool/exim/input/G/1K1e4G-0007oa-7J-D: Permission denied

I checked both systems and permissions and ownership seems to be the
same. (just a random spool folder)

[root@mta-x]# ll /var/spool/exim/input/A -d
drwxr-x--- 2 exim exim 4096 May 30 10:50 /var/spool/exim/input/A

[root@mta-x]# ll /var/spool/exim/input/A
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 4953 May 28 11:01 1K1N9A-0000tg-Cn-D


[root@mta-eye]# ll /var/spool/exim/input/A -d
drwxr-x--- 2 exim exim 4096 May 30 10:53 /var/spool/exim/input/A
[root@mta-eye]# ll /var/spool/exim/input/A
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 1410 May 27 14:32 1K13yA-0006If-77-D