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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

I also noticed this on my server, when I stopped getting mail and my g/f
complained that she couldn't send anything.  So, looking into things
(using mutt as my test program), I found that exim could no longer write
to /var/spool/mail/log/*, even though everything there was mail.mail 660. 
So, I checked /etc/xinetd.d/exim, and 'lo and behold, exim is now running
as user/group 'exim' instead of user/group 'mail'.  I tried changing the
user/group back to 'mail' and restarting exim, but exim wouldn't hear of
it, kept running as 'exim' anyways.  So I put it back to user/group 'exim'
and changed the permissions on /var/spool/mail* to use 'exim' as group on
everything, then changed all 'mail' ownership to 'exim', and voila!

In short, I have my SMTP working again.  :)

Question:  Why was this changed?  exim should be run as 'mail', since
that's the default permissions, just like my webroot is www-data.www-data,
not 'apache', so if I want to run another web server (thttpd, or some
such), I just run it as www-data.  Same with 'ftp', etc.

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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Eric Sandall                      | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                   | http://www.sourcemage.org
http://www.sandall.us/~sandalle   | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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