After upgrading from Devuan 3 (~= Debian 10) to Devuan-4 (~=Debian-11), not changing the exim config file the new Exim version is 4.94.2.
Running "sendmail -qf" emits error messages like this one: 2021-10-25 23:00:12.776 [7584] 1melHk-0000VC-R0 == FOOBAR@localhost R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1) DT=0.004s: Tainted '/var/mail/FOOBAR' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted It seems to complain about the file /var/mail/FOOBAR for _incoming_ mail. What is the cause of this and how can it be fixed? -- System details: /var/mail is a symlink to /home/mail (to keep mail on a different filesystem: $ ls -l /var | grep mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 19 2020 mail -> /home/mail/ $ ls -ld /home/mail drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Oct 25 22:55 /home/mail/ $ ls -l /home/mail -rw------- 1 FOOBAR mail 133120347 Oct 21 21:44 FOOBAR -rw------- 1 BARBAZ mail 821688 Oct 25 22:55 BARBAZ -rw------- 1 root mail 0 Jun 25 2013 root User "BARBAZ" has no such problems up to now, but no mail is delivered locally to FOOBAR. Mail is fetched with fetchmail from a POP3 server for BARBAZ and from a different IMAP server for FOOBAR. Other than that the fetchmail config is +- identical. There's nothing special in exim.conf.template for the users, except that outgoing mail is sent to a non-standard server for FOOBAR. smarthost: ... route_list = * "${if eq {$sender_address}{firstname.surn...@foobar.com} {some.other.server}{DCsmarthost}}" byname ... Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/