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Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem



On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4.  exim is owned by root:root with 
> 777 permissions.  exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions.  I 
> changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct the problem.  I 
> still got exim: permission denied when I executed mailq as user tom.  mailq 
> works for root.

OK, I meant su;mailq or sudo mailq.

You should be able to run mailq as root. Otherwise, you have a
problem. For me, it's just a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/exim4.

Kumar
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
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