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Bug 424431 - >=mail-mta/exim-4.77: permission fixes needed
Summary: >=mail-mta/exim-4.77: permission fixes needed
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Fabian Groffen
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Reported: 2012-07-01 18:41 UTC by Mark Dominik Bürkle
Modified: 2012-10-16 17:18 UTC (History)
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Description Mark Dominik Bürkle 2012-07-01 18:41:56 UTC 
Permissions and exim.conf should be changed:

 - /var/spool/mail should be owned by mail:mail and permissions 01775
   (which is from net-mail/mailbase-0)
 - exim.conf after "transport = local_delivery":
   group = mail

to allow delivery of local mails.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mail-mta/exim-4.77 [...]
1.b. echo "root: local_user" >> /etc/mail/aliases
2. echo testmail | mail -s testmail root
   # or dont do step 1.b and use "|mail -s testmail local_user"
3. grep exim /var/log/messages | tail

Actual Results:  
mail is not delivered because the lockfile can't be created.

Expected Results:  
mail should be delivered to local_user's mailbox in /var/spool/mail/local_user

lapmdb-hpl ~ #>> emerge --info
Portage 2.1.10.65 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.4.3-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.4.3-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2430M_CPU_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p20
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.7-r5
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.9.8.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.21.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.6
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.14.1-r3
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="de en fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avx berkdb branding bzip2 cdda cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cgi cli cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus dedicated dga dri dvd dvdr fam fastcgi ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gnutls gpm gsm gstreamer gtk gzip hddtemp iconv idn ipv6 java java6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k kerberos lame lash ldap lm_sensors mad matroska mbox mikmod mime mmap mms mmx mng mod modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png posix pppd quicktime raw rdesktop readline recode samba sasl savedconfig sdl session sharedmem simplexml smp sound sse sse2 ssl subversion svg symlink syslog sysvipc tcl tcmalloc tcpd theora tiff tokenizer udev unicode usb vcd videos vim-syntax vnc vorbis wavpack wifi wmf x264 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xosd xsl xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en fr" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel fglrx" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 1 Mark Dominik Bürkle 2012-07-04 16:05:38 UTC 
original error message (for those that seek help on this matter:)

mail-mta/exim-2.77: mail delivery fails, Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post /var/mail/mdb.lock...
Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2012-10-09 18:02:52 UTC 
/var/spool/mail is owned by mailbase (not Exim)

local_delivery has group and mode commented out, because it depends on whether you want to deliver to a place like /var/mail/user, or /home/user/.maildir.  The comment above that bit, explains the permissions.

I'm closing this bug, because I think there is nothing to fix for Exim here.
Comment 3 Mark Dominik Bürkle 2012-10-16 17:18:22 UTC 
FYI: divided into two bugs:

Bug#438062 (Permissions of /var/spool/mail/ fixed in mailbase-1.1), fixed

Bug#438606 (exim.conf needs in section routers:localuser: group=mail), new