On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 1:38 PM Axel Rau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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]> 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 >
Since Mailman3 communicates with Exim via LMTP, there is nowhere in Mailman3 where a log file specification is given. I guess the issue is within your Exim configuration and not Mailman3. That is why I was asking whether your Exim is actually delivering any e-mails at all. Perhaps in your Mailman3 config you have told the daemon to use that weird log path? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) -- ## 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/
