Re: [exim] 3 issues to fix

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 03:32:35PM +0000, Dippery, Kyle wrote:
> 1) sounds like the file permissions on the destination mailbox aren't right. Make sure the exim process has permission to write where you think it's supposed to.
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> The directory is 1777 and each mailbox is 0600 ITO chmod.

Exim wants to write to the mailboxes as gid 6 but you haven't got them group-writeable. If the group is already "mail", set the mailboxes to 0660.

> > 2) sounds like you haven't got exim running any queue runners. Do your exim startup options include a -q with some time specified? Does your log file have "Start queue run:" anywhere in them?
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> Well I usually start exim with
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> /usr/local/sbin/exim -bd -q1m -C /usr/local/etc/exim/configure.out

Every minute might be a bit too frequent, but should work. Do your log files give you any information about what happens when the queue runs?

> > 3) Are your errors on receiving from outlook.com or sending to outlook.com?
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> Receiving from

Are you failing at delivering from outlook.com to local mailboxes, or from outlook.com to some external systems?

If the second, that's probably a good thing.

If the first, then you've somehow not configured exim to accept email for the domains you think you've configured it for. Does the log give any more information than "relay not accepted"?

Cheers,
Kyle