Re: first-time exim

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:

> Did you get an answer already?
> 
> you write:
> 
> >dbroseme@cornus:[~]$ ll /var/spool/mail
> >total 2
> >drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mail         1024 Feb  1 07:42 ./
> >drwxr-xr-x   9 root     root         1024 Mar 10 11:27 ../
> >
> >Note the conspicuous absence of /var/spool/mail/dbroseme! 
> 
> What does 'mailq' say? If there's a message in the queue, look at
> /var/spool/exim/msglog/* for explanation (there's some command to
> do that, but I like to do it by hand :)
> 
> It may be a problem with permissions somewhere or whatever.

ALso check /var/log/exim/paniclog and /var/log/exim/mainlog for clues.