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

Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.user
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On 2025/09/20 10:00 AM, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
> On 2025/09/19 4:23 PM, Michael B. Justice via Exim-users wrote:
>> 2025-09-19 14:36:46 1uzcDs-**************** [email protected]
>> R=virtual_user_accept T=maildir_delivery defer (30): Read-only file
>> system: failed to open tmp/1758292606.M642770P207808.servername.tld (10
>> tries)
> 
> Looks like we're somehow not operating in the "home" directory for the user
> of this delivery.  Noting the "virtual" part of the router name - is this
> a real (ie. defined in etc/passwd) user?  If not, what settings do this
> router and transport have regarding directories to use?

Thinking further - the "Read-only file system" error might also be pointing
in the direction of some restriction placed on the daemon environment at it's
startup - eg. by systemd, as Chris Siebenmann noted.

That would be consistent with it working when you run a delivery manually.
-- 
Cheers,
   Jeremy

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