[Pkg-exim4-users] What permissions is exim to have for your Maildir

[Mike Cardwell]

Alex Bennee wrote:

> I've just been tweaking my setup to add a special delivery for a fixed
> user into a non-standard Maildir location (rather than creating the
> normal user in the system). Everything seems to be routing correctly
> except when exim attempts to deliver my message it complains about
> permissions.
> 
> The odd thing is my working normal Maildir has perfectly simple
> rwx------ permissions and exim delivers into it fine. I was under the
> impression that the exim delivery ran as root and shouldn't have
> problems putting things in my Mailbox.
> 
> Can anyone clarify what privileges the process that is writing into my
> Maildir should have? If it's not root then how come my other maildirs
> work OK?

The Exim delivery doesn't run as root. It usually drops privileges to 
the appropriate user, before delivering the message. Show us your 
configuration, the log entry and the relevant directory path/ownership/perms

-- 
Mike Cardwell
(https://secure.grepular.com/) (http://perlcv.com/)