> Am 21.05.2022 um 11:53 schrieb Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>: > > > > On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 11:26 AM Axel Rau via Exim-users <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 > --- > PGP-Key: CDE74120 ☀ computing @ chaos claudius > > Is your Exim even able to receive emails? > /var/spool/exim should not contain any 'log' directory.
Yes, it forwards any incoming mails to mailman and works as relay for outgoing mails. I think, the error message means msglog. Axel --- PGP-Key: CDE74120 ☀ computing @ chaos claudius -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
