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Re: exim defering local deliveries



On Sat, 30 May 1998 10:35:04 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote:

>What are the permissions on /var/spool/mail and /var/spool/mail/<user>?

drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mail         1024 May 31 00:25 .
drwxr-xr-x  11 root     root         1024 May 30 01:23 ..
-rw-rw----   1 morpheus mail         1326 May 30 09:12 morpheus
-rw-------   1 root     mail          573 May 30 09:12 root

>I think Debian's exim wants the mail files writeable by the mail user.

    Looks fine.

>is also possible that there are two exim processes trying to write mail to
>the mailbox at the same time so one gets deferred.  Exim can have multiple
>simultanious delivery attempts happening.

    I don't think that is case or either I'd get mutliple notifications in
the logs, wouldn't I?  Also, simultanious on every delivery?  Seems a little
far fetched that it would be so perfectly synced.
    

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