exim problems with latest version

[David Bellows <bfootdav@mindspring.com>]

Hello all,

I just today upgraded my version of exim (I didn't mean to, upgrading
kword caused exim and I just let it happen).  I did have exim working
perfectly, now it does nothing.  Here is the error:

 2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-0000Su-00 Failed to create spool file\
/var/spool/exim/input//13fp4T-0000Su-00-D: Permission denied

2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-0000Su-00 Failed to create spool file\
/var/spool/exim/input//13fp4T-0000Su-00-D: Permission denied

2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-0000Su-00 Failed to create spool file\
/var/spool/exim/input//13fp4T-0000Su-00-D: Permission denied

here is ls -l /var/spool/exim
drwxr-x---    5 mail     mail         4096 Aug 22 01:28 exim

here is ls -l /var/spool/exim/input
drwxr-x---    2 mail     mail         4096 Oct  1 14:13 input

I added me (as user) to group mail and I still get the same error.

Here is ls -l /var/spool/exim/input//*
-rw-------    1 mail     mail           22 Aug 27 17:42 
... [same for all the other entries]

Something is very wrong.  Even if I change the permissions, the errors
still occur in /var/spool/exim/input//*

Thanks for any help,
David Bellows