/etc/aliases must not be group or world writable and be owned by the correct user.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Can somebody help me to configure my exim please. There was no : responses after a previous request. : I have a dialup ppp-connection to an ISP. Incoming mail works without : problem. Some outgoing messages also. However, there is one address : (and it is one I have used several times a week with smail) which : gives the following error message in the /var/log/exim/mainlog: : --------------------- : 1997-08-11 12:23:01 0wxrcr-00002u-00 system_aliases director: : /etc/aliases (linear search): wrong mode : 1997-08-11 12:23:01 0wxrcr-00002u-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] : D=system_aliases defer (-17): /etc/aliases (linear search): wrong mode : --------------------- : I do not understand what is wrong. : ------------------------------------------------ : Johann Spies : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Windsorlaan 19 : Pietermaritzburg : 3201 : Suid Afrika (South Africa) : Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
