On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Cronfy wrote: > > I am upgrading exim from 4.54 to current version 4.66 under FreeBSD 6.0. > > I noticed that spool header files changed. The documentation says: "The > > second > > line of the -H file contains the login name for the uid of the process that > > called Exim to read the message. ... For a message received over TCP/IP, > > it is normally the Exim user." > > In exim 4.54 there was "mailnull 26 6" - exim user that was configured to > > be used > > by exim. But exim 4.66 stores "root 0 0" instead. > > I am sorry for repeating my message, but I need at least any answer > for my question. Please tell me either I have to reexplain everything > making my (probably bad) english more understandable, or my question > does not makes any sense at all. > > So, is there anything wrong with my header files that have "root 0 0" record > in second line or it is fine?
If the message was submitted by root, then it is fine. If the message came over TCP/IP then it is unusual, because the Exim daemon is not normally run as root. What is the output from exim -bP exim_user ? What user is your exim daemon running as? -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
