Exim - local user mail delivery issues, Hitching Post.

[FruitNZ]

Hi all.

Exim is having issues delivering mail to local users, Virtual Users aren't affected...

Been pulling my hair all morning (I got a lot of hair...), and wondered if anyone had ideas as I am stumped.

local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching
post /var/mail/hostingd.lock.cp2.hostingdirect.co.nz.486d56d1.00006d45
(euid=1003 egid=8)


folder permissions:
===========

/var/mail directory:
drwxrwxrwt *2 mail mail * 4096 2008-07-04 14:15 /var/mail

users within /var/mail/:
-rw-rw---- *1 hostingd *mail * 327896 2008-07-02 13:07 /var/mail/hostingd


from exim.conf:
=========

localuser:
* driver = accept
* check_local_user
* condition = "${if eq {$domain} {$primary_hostname} {yes} {no}}"
* transport = local_delivery

local_delivery:
* driver = appendfile
* delivery_date_add
* envelope_to_add
* file = /var/mail/$local_part
* group = mail
* mode = 0660
* return_path_add
* user = ${local_part}


/var/spool/exim/msglog:
==============

# cat 1KEXZZ-0007H8-BE
2008-07-04 10:46:41 Received from <> R=1KEXZZ-0007H5-7F U=mail P=local S=2651
T="Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender"
2008-07-04 10:46:41 [email protected]
<[email protected]> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13):
Permission denied: creating lock file hitching
post /var/mail/hostingd.lock.cp2.hostingdirect.co.nz.486d56d1.00006d45
(euid=1003 egid=8)
2008-07-04 12:17:29 [email protected]
<[email protected]> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13):
Permission denied: creating lock file hitching
post /var/mail/hostingd.lock.cp2.hostingdirect.co.nz.486d6c19.00002eb7
(euid=1003 egid=8)
2008-07-04 12:24:43 [email protected]
<[email protected]> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13):
Permission denied: creating lock file hitching
post /var/mail/hostingd.lock.cp2.hostingdirect.co.nz.486d6dca.0000356a
(euid=1003 egid=8)


UIDs:
===
EUID 1003 = hostingd
EGID 8 = mail

/etc/passwd:
hostingd:x:1003:110::/home/hostingd:/bin/bash

/etc/group:
mail:x:8:

I'm considering trying:

/usr/local/directadmin/directadmin p

and:

/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/set_permissions.sh all

Is this likely to break/fix anything?

Thanks everyone

 

[nobaloney]

I'd certainly start by running the set_permissions.sh script.

Jeff