> You should check with the packagers as to what their intent is. Running Exim non-suid > is definitely more tricky; it traditionally needs privilege for some operations > (including opening the SMTP socket for listen, and for delivery into user's mailboxes). > > There is a docs chapter that discusses this: > https://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-security_considerations.html#SECTrunexiwitpri > -- > Cheers, > Jeremy
That was it! Following your linked section and the appendfile section linked therein, I was able to get mail to deliver, and was able to view that mail in gnus! I had to create the file: touch /var/mail/user chown user:exim /var/mail/user chmod 660 /var/mail/user I then added this line to the top-level of my exim config deliver_drop_privilege = true Then added these options to the local_delivery transport: no_check_owner file_must_exist user = exim group = exim mode = 0660 Thanks a ton! -Zacchae PS Now to figure out SENDING mail -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## [email protected] ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
