on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:14:41PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:18:48PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > It's not clear what you're describing. > > > OK. let me start again. I have exim and fetchmail running. There is a > .fetchmailrc in /root that points to my ISP. There is a .forward file in > /home/cam that was working just fine before I had to reinstall the system. > (It has not been touched.)
Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly
recommend 72 as a good default.
> Fetchmail works fine. Exim cannot seem to find me (or my .forward
> file) and delivers my mail to root, which then gets bounced to my
> Inbox, since messages to root and postmaster get bounced to me.
>
> This is the second attempt to send a reply to your latest one. The
> first was long, had big chunks of exim.conf in it (i.e. it took me a
> while to write), and was refused by exim. Here is the paniclog:
>
> 2001-09-06 21:48:33 15fDZB-0004PX-00 Unable to get root to set uid and
> gid for local delivery to cam: uid=8 euid=8
> 2001-09-06 21:48:33 15fDZB-0004Pa-00 Unable to get root to set uid and
> gid for local delivery to cam: uid=8 euid=8
<...>
Not sure where this is happening, have you tried Googling this error
message?
> > If you want to sort personal mail being delivered to you, look into
> > procmail, or a supposedly easier to use Perl solution (mailfilter?) that
> > someone whipped up last year.
>
> As I indicated above, I had the .forward file working just fine.
Do you have procmail installed?
It appears (from your followup post) that you've resolved the issue by
removing procmail refs /etc/exim/exim.conf.
> > I don't believe UID has anything to do with delivering mail on your
> > system, certainly once you've purged your old message cache as it
> > appears you've done.
> >
>
> > I suspect there's output somewhere that's indicating a possible nature
> > or cause of your problem. You're strongly encouraged to post it to
> > list, otherwise we're just shooting in the dark.
> >
> I hope so. Maybe the bit above will help.
>
> In any case, I removed and reinstalled exim (and mutt, since Debian
> does things that way),
Not necessary:
$ echo "mutt hold" | dpkg --set-selections
$ apt-get remove --purge exim
$ apt-get install exim
$ echo "mutt install" | dpkg --set-selections
Cheers.
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