The mail on my home network worked well untill recently (maybe after
updating Woody on one machine).
My setup is as follows:
192.168.0.1 (spyker) is the gateway to the outside world through a
ppp-connection. My isp is adept.co.za.
192.168.0.2 (storm) is the other machine. The user(s) on storm gets
mail from spyker using fetchmail.
Exim is the mta on both machines.
runq -d9 on storm produces i.a. the following line:
failed to open database lock file
/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied
(euid=8 egid=8)
The contents of /var/spool/exim/db/ on spyker is:
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Okt 2 2001
wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 Okt 2 2001
wait-remote_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Okt 2 2001 retry.lockfile
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 Okt 2 2001 retry
I have tried to solve the problem by removing
/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile but that did not solve
the problem.
I then did a chown mail.mail on all the files in /var/spool/exim/db/
but that did not make any difference. I changed them back to
root.root afterwards. BTW I do not understand why they should be
root.root if mail is the user for exim?
My exim.conf on spyker:
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qualify_domain = spyker
qualify_recipient = localhost
local_domains = localhost:spyker:storm:spyker.alterit.co.za:alterit.co.za
local_domains_include_host = true
local_domains_include_host_literals = true
relay_domains =
relay_domains_include_local_mx = true
never_users = root
host_accept_relay = localhost:storm
trusted_users = mail
smtp_verify = true
gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
gecos_name = $1
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 500
freeze_tell_mailmaster = true
received_header_text = "Received: \
${if def:sender_rcvhost {from ${sender_rcvhost}\n\t}\
{${if def:sender_ident {from ${sender_ident} }}\
${if def:sender_helo_name {(helo=${sender_helo_name})\n\t}}}}\
by ${primary_hostname} \
${if def:received_protocol {with ${received_protocol}}} \
(Exim ${version_number} #${compile_number} (Debian))\n\t\
id ${message_id}\
${if def:received_for {\n\tfor <$received_for>}}"
end
local_delivery:
driver = appendfile
group = mail
mode = 0660
mode_fail_narrower = false
envelope_to_add = true
file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
address_pipe:
driver = pipe
return_output
address_file:
driver = appendfile
address_directory:
driver = appendfile
no_from_hack
prefix = ""
suffix = ""
address_reply:
driver = autoreply
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/bin/procmail -d ${local_part}"
return_path_add
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
check_string = "From "
escape_string = ">From "
user = $local_part
group = mail
remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
end
real_local:
prefix = real-
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
system_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
file = /etc/aliases
search_type = lsearch
procmail:
driver = localuser
transport = procmail_pipe
require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
no_verify
userforward:
driver = forwardfile
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
reply_transport = address_reply
no_verify
check_ancestor
file = .forward
modemask = 002
filter
localuser:
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
end
smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "alterit.co.za localhost byname; spyker localhost byname; storm
byname; * smtp.adept.co.za bydns_a"
end
* * F,2h,15m; G,16h,2h,1.5; F,4d,8h
end
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
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I hope somebody can help me with this one.
Regards.
Johann
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