The directory
/var/spool/exim/msglog/
is stuffed with error messages, but one step at a time...
How do I fix the following error
R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating lock
file hitching post
# ls -ld /
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Aug 11 10:53 /
# ls -ld /var
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Aug 9 15:30 /var
# ls -ld /var/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 9 15:30 /var/mail -> /var/spool/mail
# ls -ld /var/spool
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 10 11:20 /var/spool
# ls -ld /var/spool/mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 Aug 14 09:55 /var/spool/mail
# ls -l /var/spool/mail/
total 0
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Jasen Betts <jasen@???> wrote:
> On 2014-08-13, visaris tds.net <visaris@???> wrote:
> > I use gentoo. I emerged exim and fetchmail. Fetchmail evidently gets
> > mail to my satisfaction, and hands it off to exim. I say this, because
> > /var/spool/exim/input is stuffed full of messages, courtesy of exim.
>
> > I once read email with emacs (M-x rmail), but that nolonger works. The
> > reason I suppose is that emacs needs mail in mbox format, and although
> > mail is sitting in /var/spool/exim/input, nevertheless it has not been
> > "delivered" to the proper place in an acceptable format.
>
> yeah for mbox the this place is typically a file called
> /var/mail/$USER
>
> > I don't know what the proper place is, but One Step At A Time. First,
> > I'ld like to get mail "delivered" to some file (I don't care which) in
> > mbox format.
>
> > I have stumbled across information that mbox is *not* an
> > unambiguous format,
>
> yes, there's several variants of mbox.
>
> > and what I ought to perfer is "mboxo".
>
> that looks to be the format exim uses by default.
>
>
> anyway I have this in my transports section:
>
> mail_spool:
> debug_print = "T: appendfile for $local_part@$domain"
> driver = appendfile
> file = /var/mail/$local_part
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> mode_fail_narrower = false
>
>
> and here's the router thad feeds it (goee in the routers section):
>
> local_user:
> debug_print = "R: local_user for $local_part@$domain"
> driver = accept
> domains = +local_domains
> check_local_user
> local_parts = ! root
> transport = LOCAL_DELIVERY
> cannot_route_message = Unknown user
>
>
> local_domains is defined elewhere in the configuration file
>
>
> > Advice such as found In Chapter 3, section 13.
>
> chapter 3 is is a good overview of how email passes through exim,
> if you;'ve re-read it until you understand every paragraph there's
> probaly nothing more to be gained from it (it took me several readings)
>
>
> There should be an example configuration file somewhere in the
> documentation... the code above is minimalist, the sample file will
> give you further router and transport definitios that yield the other
> features that typical MDAs provide, /etc/aliases ~/.forward and
> the like.
>
>
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>
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