> Am 21.05.2022 um 11:53 schrieb Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@???>:
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> On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 11:26 AM Axel Rau via Exim-users <exim-users@??? <mailto:exim-users@exim.org>> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Recently my mailman 3 servers began spamming with tons of such log messages:
> cannot accept message: failed to stat log directory /var/spool/exim/log: Permission denied
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> root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # ls -ld .
> drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 5 May 18 05:45 .
> root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # ls -l
> total 10
> drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 8 Jan 18 20:17 db
> drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 2 May 18 03:01 input
> drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 2 May 18 03:01 msglog
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> root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # id 26
> uid=26(mailnull) gid=26(mailnull) groups=26(mailnull)
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> user mailman is in the mail group.
> Should it be in the mailnull group?
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> What is the correct setup?
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> Any help appreciated,
> Axel
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> Is your Exim even able to receive emails?
> /var/spool/exim should not contain any 'log' directory.
Yes, it forwards any incoming mails to mailman and works as relay for outgoing mails.
I think, the error message means msglog.
Axel
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