Hi,

i have several emails in my Mail Queue and every time i try to deliver them, i always end up with getting this error message:

Message xyz is not frozen
delivering message xyz
LOG: 0 MAIN PANIC
virtual_user director: /home/zyx/etc/passwd (lsearch lookup): file mode 2660 should not contain 0020 (check the modemask option)
LOG: 0 MAIN
== name@host.com D=virtual_user defer (-18): /home/zyx/etc/passwd (lsearch lookup): file mode 2660 should not contain 0020

Any idea, what i could do to get the messages delivered?

Thanks,

Duncan

Well its actually telling you what to do by the sounds of it - i.e. the file has mode 2660, and of that mask it shouldn't have 0020 set..

So maybe its as simple as setting mode 2640 on that file instead, i.e. "chmod 2640 /home/zyx/etc/passwd"

If that file has had its flags changed, then that'd work. If there's a lot of files with mode 2660 then you'd probably be better telling exim what the mode you want is, which should be configured in your Local/Makefile configuration file.

If you're not familiar with numeric modes, the file specified has modes:

rw-rws--- (2660)

so it doesn't want 0020, which is group write, hence should be:

rw-r-s--- (2640)

I *think* those are right, someone correct me otherwise.

Andy.