[SA-exim] sa-exim, exim 4.30 and debian

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Marc F. Clemente wrote:
> I upgraded my debian system from exim 4.2x to exim 4.30.  Debian decided 
> to change the user/group running exim4 from "mail" to "Debian-exim". 
> Since then sa-exim stopped working:
> 
> 2003-12-13 04:22:28 1AV6ul-0006sN-SF SA: Debug: Writing message to 
> /var/spool/sa-exim/SApermreject/new/1071310948_f6c801c3c1b2$b756a10a$c7167e04 at mst.dk
> 2003-12-13 04:22:28 1AV6ul-0006sN-SF SA: Notice: creating maildir tree 
> in  /var/spool/sa-exim/SApermreject
> 2003-12-13 04:22:28 1AV6ul-0006sN-SF SA: PANIC: Unexpected error on 
> mkdir /var/spool/sa-exim/SApermreject (but message was accepted), file 
> sa-exim.c, line 202: Permission denied
> 
> I had to chown the directories in /var/spool/sa-exim from "mail" to 
> "Debian-exim" to make it work again.

Well, that would be entirely expected :-)

You can thank the sa-exim log messages for letting you know what to do :)

Marc
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