Re: [exim] Spurious permission denied error

On 27/04/2020 20:52, Russell King via Exim-users wrote:
> I'm running debian stable on my machines, and I've noticed that when
> one of my scripts sends email,

I'm hoping that means you can trigger it on demsnd?

> I get a spurious and unexplained
> "Permission denied" error:
>
> 2020-04-27 20:36:15 1jT9Y7-0003B4-Mf <= patchd@??? U=patchd P=local S=1535
> 2020-04-27 20:36:15 1jT9Y7-0003B4-Mf H=pandora.armlinux.org.uk [xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:214:fdff:fe10:1be6] Permission denied

> My guess is that there is some file that exim can't access while
> attempting to send to pandora, but I think working out what is
> going to be very hard (I guess debug isn't allowed from non-root
> users?)

If you have root, the moral equivalent of

# service exim stop && exim -d+all -bd 2>&1 | tee log
...
ctrl-c
# service exim start
# less log



> However, there's a general principle of error reporting here:
> shouldn't error messages contain some hint as to what is being
> done when the error was encountered?

I agree, and that's bugworthy. Please get debug output so
we can locate where in processing it is; that should help
find the problem coding.
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Cheers,
Jeremy