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-
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ohad M. Somjen wrote:
> [snip]
> T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to /root
> [snip]
>
> exim runs as mail:mail
like any sane MTA should (read: sendmail not included)
> i guess this should not be the normal situation.
guess again. I never rea
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
