On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Cronfy wrote:

> # /usr/local/exim/sbin/exim -C /usr/local/etc/exim/configure-mail-new -bP 
> exim_user
> exim_user = mailnull

Looks OK. (Assuming, of course, that mailnull doesn't have uid = 0.)

> # ps -axwwo user,rgroup,pid,command | grep new
> mailnull mail    3251 /usr/local/exim/sbin/exim -bd -C 
> /usr/local/etc/exim/configure-mail-new -oP /var/run/exim-new.pid (exim-4.66-0)

Presumably you were running as root when you started that command. 
Running Exim using -C has a number of complications. Do you get the same 
problem if you run Exim without using -C?

I've just been looking at the code - there does seem to be an oddity. 
Try starting the daemon, then sending it a HUP signal, *then* sending 
the message.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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