I am getting e-mails like the one below all the time, now. I had this problem once before and I think that all I had to do was clear the paniclog with '> paniclog', but that does not seem to be working, now. I cleared it this morning, and when I just checked it was filling up again. It looks like I get three lines every half hour. This is preventing me from receiving e-mails sent by a cron job that runs a backup script. Any ideas on how to get rid of this and not have it come back would be greatly appreciated.

Marc

e-mail showing paniclog:

exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on quixote.home has non-zero size, mail system might be broken. Up to 10 lines are quoted below.

2021-11-30 06:00:19 1momA3-00054k-DE ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 06:30:19 1mrJnB-00026m-53 ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 06:30:20 1mmEkA-00009l-Jr ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 06:30:20 1momA3-00054k-DE ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 07:00:19 1mrJnB-00026m-53 ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 07:00:19 1mmEkA-00009l-Jr ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 07:00:19 1momA3-00054k-DE ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 07:30:19 1mrJnB-00026m-53 ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 07:30:20 1mmEkA-00009l-Jr ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted
2021-11-30 07:30:20 1momA3-00054k-DE ==marc@??? R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory name for mail_spool transport) not permitted