Re: 4.97 messages are delivered locally (but manual retries work)
Cyborg via Exim-users <[email protected]>
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Am 17.09.25 um 19:50 schrieb Michael B. Justice via Exim-users: > 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, complete with the > owner, group, and file mode specified in the maildir delivery > transport. Turning on debugging (-d) for a retry (-M) shows the > process, and even though it doesn't explicitly use the (full) path, it > shows the renaming of tmp/<filename> to new/<filename>. The correct > maildir was also displayed on a preceding line. Are you sure, it starts as root and drops privs later when run in daemon mode? Because: to be able to change/write the message with the uid the maildir needs, it has to be privileged. -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## [email protected] ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/