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Re: exim doesn't deliver



On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:49:16 -0200 (BRST), chiappa@centroin.com.br said:
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to use exim+fetchmail. Fetchmail is fetching emails from my
>ISP without problems. The problem is with exim, because after fetchmail
>sends the messages to exim for local delivery, all messages are frozen in
>/var/spool/exim/input and in /var/spool/msglog appear a lot of messages,
>all of them saying the following:
>
>"local_delivery transport deferred: mailbox /var/spool/mail/myaccount has
>wrong uid (0 != 1000)
>*** Frozen"
>
>What should be the correct uid? how can I change it?

looks like you made the account as root. make the user own it:

chown user.group /var/spool/mail/myaccount



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