[Wylug-help] Exim sending problems

[Geoff Richards]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:37:27PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I've just copied my existing mail server to a new box  and now when I try to
> send an email I get the entries below in the log.
>
> By copying I mean I've done an identical install and the tgz's /var/spool/mail
> /var/spool/exim and /usr/local/exim and copied them across.
>
> Anyone got any ideas how to trace this?
>
> 2004-07-02 13:34:27 1BgNFL-0000R8-00 <= gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
> H=gary.ringways.co.uk [10.1.1.2] P=esmtp S=763
> id=200407021320.57582.gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
>
> 2004-07-02 13:34:27 1BgNFL-0000R8-00 == gary at ringways.co.uk T=local_delivery
> defer (-25): filter process failure 2 while writing to /var/spool/mail/gary

Is the ownership of /var/spool/mail/gary right?  If the uids are
different on the two boxes then it might have ended up owned or
group owned by the wrong user/group.


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