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Re: MTA Frustration: Exim



Make sure the world "sticky bit" ( t ) is set ( chmod o+t mail from
/var/spool )  is set on that directory so users can delete their own spool
files.


On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 AJT60@student.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Okay, my /var/spool/mail was group root. a simple chgrp has everything
> working (exim is still set up only for local mail, but I have every
> confidence). Thanks very much for your help. I apologise for my whingy
> initial post, but I *have* been tearing my hair out over this one. 
> 
> Be seeing you, 
> 
> Andrew Tarr
> 
> "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"
> 
> 
> 

George Bonser

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