Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 AJT60@student.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:

> main: 
> 1998-09-20 15:55:28 0zKaau-00007s-00 == ajt@caliban T=local_delivery defer
> (13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post
> /var/spool/mail/ajt.lock.Caliban.36047cb0.000001ea


Ok, the permissions appear wrong on /var/spool/mail. my /var/spool/mail
directory looks like this:

drwxrwsr-t   2 root     mail         1024 Sep 19 23:43 mail

I am not positive that is correct, just that this is how it is installed
on my system by debian a long time ago. 

Make sure that the mail group has write access in there.

George Bonser

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