Hey Ohad,
I see no reason why Exim should try to deliver mail right
to the root's home directory, unless you used some Exim filters
of course. Correctly, it should only append the mail to
/var/spool/mail/root (or wherever is the mailspool dir) which has
owner "root" and group "mail". Then, the e-mail client (local,
such as Pine/Mutt, or remote such as your POP/IMAP server) should
read it, and maybe move it to the home directory (if local client
or IMAP).
"Ohad M. Somjen" wrote:
>
> hi,
> i cannot mail root since i get the following error.
>
> [snip]
> T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to /root
> [snip]
>
> exim runs as mail:mail
>
> [from exim.conf]
> exim_user = mail
> exim_group = mail
>
> i guess this should not be the normal situation.
>
> should i add mail to root group ????
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Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie
[http://toast.demon.co.il]
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