On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 11:26 AM Axel Rau via Exim-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Recently my mailman 3 servers began spamming with tons of such log
> messages:
> cannot accept message: failed to stat log directory /var/spool/exim/log:
> Permission denied
>
> root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # ls -ld .
> drwxrwx---  5 mailnull  mail  5 May 18 05:45 .
> root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # ls -l
> total 10
> drwxr-x---  2 mailnull  mail  8 Jan 18 20:17 db
> drwxr-x---  2 mailnull  mail  2 May 18 03:01 input
> drwxr-x---  2 mailnull  mail  2 May 18 03:01 msglog
>
> root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # id 26
> uid=26(mailnull) gid=26(mailnull) groups=26(mailnull)
>
> user mailman is in the mail group.
> Should it be in the mailnull group?
>
> What is the correct setup?
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Axel
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 Is your Exim even able to receive emails?
/var/spool/exim should not contain any 'log' directory.

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