mkdir permission problem with SpamAssassin

[Stephen Lee]

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 13:45, Matt Kettler wrote:
> What is the user exim's home directory? sounds like exim has a home dir of
> "no" in /etc/passwd.
>
> Note that spamassassin stores it's AWL information in ~/.spamassassin/. It
> also reads user_prefs there. Run SA as a user that has a home dir, or
> disable the AWL ( mailscanner calls SA, so you'll have to change this in
> mailscanner's conf.)
>

That was it! I had created the exim account without a home dir as I
wasn't anticipating on having to store anything as that user.

Thanks Matt.

Stephen