On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Ok, the permissions appear wrong on /var/spool/mail. my /var/spool/mail > directory looks like this: > > drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 1024 Sep 19 23:43 mail > > I am not positive that is correct, just that this is how it is installed > on my system by debian a long time ago. > > Make sure that the mail group has write access in there. >
Okay, my /var/spool/mail was group root. a simple chgrp has everything working (exim is still set up only for local mail, but I have every confidence). Thanks very much for your help. I apologise for my whingy initial post, but I *have* been tearing my hair out over this one. Be seeing you, Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"
