Re: [exim] mail stuck in /var/spool/exim4/input

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:56:09PM -0400, m s via Exim-users wrote:
> I'm running Debian sid and after upgrading packages today, exim stopped
> working. It's keeping all my local mail in /var/spool/exim4/input and
[...]
> /var/spool/mail itself is a link (owned by root, group root) to
> /var/mail, which is also root.root.

Debian is shipped with /var/mail as drwxrwsr-x root:mail.
Try:

chown root:mail /var/mail
chmod u=rwx,g=rwxs,o=rx /var/mail
runq
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Eugene Berdnikov