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

nealbirch said:
> well, mine don't. annoying. I just did
>
> chown -R exim:exim /var/spool/mail*
>
> though. What did you do to change mail ownership?
>
> neal

Well, I changed all the directories, including mail in /var/spool/mail to
exim.exim, and the groups to exim on files (not the owners, as those
belong to the users).  Here's what my /var/spool/mail looks like now:

root@sandall:/var/spool/mail# l -R
.:
total 262k
-rw-rw----    1 cstrike  exim            0 Jul  7 13:30 cstrike
-rw-rw----    1 darstr   exim            0 Nov 13 09:45 darstr
drwxrwx---    2 exim     exim          184 Jul 10 16:04 db
drwxrwx---    2 exim     exim           48 Dec 16 13:57 input
-rw-rw----    1 jake     exim            0 Dec  1 12:46 jake
-rw-rw----    1 kinkela  exim         251k Dec 16 12:31 kinkela
-rw-rw----    1 krommj   exim            0 Dec  9 20:23 krommj
drwxrwx---    2 exim     exim           96 Dec 14 22:39 log
drwxrwx---    2 exim     exim           48 Dec 16 13:57 msglog
-rw-rw----    1 nwnights exim            0 Jul  7 13:29 nwnights
-rw-rw----    1 root     exim            0 Jul  8 20:51 root
-rw-rw----    1 sandallb exim         1.3k Nov  9 21:36 sandallb
-rw-rw----    1 sandalle exim         4.0k Dec 16 13:57 sandalle
-rw-rw----    1 seti     exim            0 Jul  8 00:04 seti
-rw-rw----    1 uptagraf exim            0 Jul 26 10:06 uptagrafftb

./db:
total 24k
-rw-rw----    1 exim     exim          12k Dec 11 17:00 retry
-rw-rw----    1 exim     exim            0 Jul 10 16:04 retry.lockfile
-rw-rw----    1 exim     exim          12k Dec 16 11:11 wait-remote_smtp
-rw-rw----    1 exim     exim            0 Jul 10 16:04
wait-remote_smtp.lockfile

./input:
total 0

./log:
total 68k
-rw-r--r--    1 exim     exim          64k Dec 16 13:57 mainlog
-rw-r-----    1 exim     exim          393 Dec 14 22:39 paniclog

./msglog:
total 0

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