Re: 4.97 messages are delivered locally (but manual retries work)

Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <[email protected]>
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On 2025/09/17 6:50 PM, Michael B. Justice via Exim-users wrote:
> When running as a daemon, inbound messages are not written to the
> appropriate maildir and the mainlog reports that it cannot open
> tmp/<filename> and the message is queued for retry (after 10 times of
> trying initially).
> 
> Yet when I run exim as root with -Rf <domain name> or -qff or even -M
> <message id>, the messages are delivered as expected

Is your exim binary installed suid root?
-- 
Cheers,
   Jeremy

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