Renaud Allard wrote: > > anand n wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I got the following error message in my server >> >> >> ######################################################################## >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog >> >> 2007-06-09 11:02:18 SMTP command timeout on connection from [192.***.***.*] >> 2007-06-09 11:02:24 Failed to create directory "/var/spool/exim": Permission >> denied >> >> 2007-06-09 11:13:52 Failed to create directory "/var/spool/exim": Permission >> denied >> >> 2007-06-09 11:14:02 Failed to create directory "/var/spool/exim": Permission >> denied >> ####################################################################### >> >> Any suggestions...Am waiting for your positive response..... > > This may help you: > > mkdir /var/spool/exim > chown youreximuser /var/spool/exim >
Also: - check to insure you have no invocation of 'sendmail' - the default on a *BSD system for example, or ANY OTHER MTA, and that chron jobs that call it are 'repointed' in /etc/mail/mailer.conf or equivalent - to call exim, not sendmail (or other default MTA). - *otherwise* even though you set the right ownerships all around (logs included) for exim, there can arise a situation where at bootup, chron, or syslog activity, one of those tasks invoked as root will set the ownership back to mailnull:mail - or some such. May be quite different on Linux, but you get the drift w/r what to look for... Unexpected ownership changes are the giveaway. NB: chmod has to be appropriate as well as ownership. HTH, Bill -- ## 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/
