> You should check with the packagers as to what their intent is. Running
Exim non-suid
> is definitely more tricky; it traditionally needs privilege for some
operations
> (including opening the SMTP socket for listen, and for delivery into
user's mailboxes).
>
> There is a docs chapter that discusses this:
>
https://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-security_considerations.html#SECTrunexiwitpri
> --
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
That was it! Following your linked section and the appendfile section
linked therein, I was able to get mail to deliver, and was able to view
that mail in gnus! I had to create the file:
touch /var/mail/user
chown user:exim /var/mail/user
chmod 660 /var/mail/user
I then added this line to the top-level of my exim config
deliver_drop_privilege = true
Then added these options to the local_delivery transport:
no_check_owner
file_must_exist
user = exim
group = exim
mode = 0660
Thanks a ton!
-Zacchae
PS Now to figure out SENDING mail
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