Dushan Karawita wrote: > Hi, > > I'm relatively new to Exim and just installed exim on Solairs 9 server. I > wanted make my SMTP server as outgoing only. When I'm testing the SMTP > locally I can see the following message in the Exim main log and the mail > seems to be getting queued forever (subsequent tries also failing). > > 2010-11-11 09:25:44 1PGPaO-00036y-I3 User 0 set for remote_smtp transport is > on the fixed_never_users list > 2010-11-11 09:25:44 1PGPaO-00036y-I3 == [email protected] R=dnslookup > T=remote_smtp defer (-29): User 0 set for remote_smtp transport is on the > fixed_ > > I added the alias for root in /etc/alias file, as suggested by previous > mailing thread which I could find for the same error. But my problem still > exisit. > > Appreciate your help here. > > Dushan >
Problem should go away if you set up an account for *yourself*, add it to the 'wheel' group, login with that UID, and su or sudo only if/as/when you *must* function as root. Exim will then see your mail submission as coming from the login UID, not the EUID of root, even if su'ed to root - and should onpass the mail. Nothing to do with Exim, but 'the wise' do not generally permit root login in multi-user mode OR over-the-wire at all - nor necessarily even a 'wheel' group UID. Safer by far to login with a limited-privs UID, su as required, even if that means two steps (self to a second wheel-group UID, then again su from wheel-member to root). HTH, Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
