Author: Phil Pennock Date: To: Adam Nielsen CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] How do you get multiple messages sent via the
samesmarthost SMTP connection?
On 2008-07-02 at 14:42 +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > > You can "rm -rf" the db directory and Exim should recreate it with
> > correct permissions, provided that it can write to /var/spool/exim/.
> > Just don't remove the parent of the db directory! The mails in the
> > spool are elsewhere under /var/spool/exim/.
>
> Hmm, well I deleted it and Exim recreated it, but it still gives me the
> same error message. The db/ folder only contains retry.lockfile and
> wait-remote_smtp.lockfile. Should there be other non-lockfiles in there?
Yes. Various db files, whose maintenance is described in section 50 of
spec.txt and some wait-* files for each transport in use. Sounds as
though your Exim install is broken, permissions-wise. Did you remove
the setuid-root permission from the binary or something?
If you can't find the problem your end, you'll need to post an "ls -ld"
of the db folder, the output of:
$ exim -bP exim_user exim_group
the Local/Makefile (you can skip the comments for the list, so:
$ grep '^[^#]' Local/Makefile
and preferably as much of your configuration as you're comfortable
posting.
