[gdrury]

I’ve had this problem on two occasions. Both were different causes as far as I can tell. The first was caused by running db 4.? I’d been trying to get Postfix working with pop-before-smtp with little success and it required db 4. When I installed exim from the afp548 installer I had these db problems you described. Once I’d removed db 4 completely those problems went away.

The second time I had the db errors was after appplying the latest security update (8/2003) to my OSX client. I then started having problems and only noticed something was wrong by the complete lack of email I was getting.
It turns out that the permissions on /var/mail had changed. a ‘chmod 1777’ on /var/mail fixed the problem and my exim system is running fine again. I’m still unsure whether the permissions change was caused by the security update or the ‘repair permissions’ I ran afterwards.

Hope this helps.

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