Exinm File Permissions

[Rejean Proulx]

I've been having trouble with getting exim to send locally.  I have
/var/spool set to owner mail and group mail.  According to the mainlog, it
complains that the user samuel at interfree.ca doesn't have permission to write
to that folder.  At least, I think that is what the log is trying to tell
me.  In a Debian setup, who should own /var/spool?  I think that any user
you want to mail to has to have a userid, and so they do.  There is a user
id samuel on the system.  It seems to want all users to be able to write to
the spool folder.  How to I set that?  Here is the log entry.  Maybe I am
misinterpreting this.

2003-10-26 18:47:51 1ADubu-0000GB-00 <= rejean at interfree.ca H=(M019005)
[192.168.1.1] P=smtp S=788 id=027f01c39c1b$8fb32c00$6501a8c0 at ism.can.ibm.com
2003-10-26 18:47:51 1ADubu-0000GB-00 == samuel at interfree.ca T=local_delivery
defer (13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post
/var/spool/mail/samuel.lock.interfree.interfree.ca.3f9c5d27.000003ee
(euid=1001 egid=8)


 Rejean Proulx
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