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[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Data Vortex wrote:

> I have not had it work properly yet, I'm having problems
> with file permissions.
> 
> Here is what I see in the debug console of sympa when I send a help
> request to sympa@myserver:
> 
> Processing /var/lib/sympa/spool/msg/sympa.973394766.7579 with priority 1
> Can't open /var/lib/sympa/spool/msg/sympa.973394766.7579: Permission
> denied
> No From found in message, skipping.
> Renaming bad file sympa.973394766.7579 to BAD-sympa.973394766.7579
> 
> And here are the file permissions for that file it's talking about:
> 
> -rw-------    1 root     mail          678 Nov  4 22:26
> BAD-sympa.973394766.7579
> [...]
> sympa.pl is running as user 'sympa'

You need to make 'sympa' owner of the spools (and everything in
/home/sympa/) :

=>      % chown -R sympa.sympa /home/sympa/

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseaux des Universités