--- exim.init.orig	2016-06-09 14:48:12.000000000 +0300
+++ exim.init	2016-09-12 23:47:12.533730883 +0300
@@ -64,12 +64,22 @@
 	# check ownerships
 	# do this by seeing if /var/log/exim/main.log exists and is
 	# owned by exim - if owned by someone else we fix it up
-	if [ -f /var/log/exim/main.log ]
+	if [ -d /var/log/exim ]
 	then
-	    if [ "exim" != "`ls -l /var/log/exim/main.log | awk '{print $4}'`" ]
-	    then
-		chown -R $USER:$GROUP /var/log/exim /var/spool/exim
-	    fi
+		if [ "${EXIM_USER}:${EXIM_GROUP}" != "`ls -ld /var/log/exim | awk '{print $3 \":\" $4}'`" ]
+		then
+			chown -R ${EXIM_USER}:${EXIM_GROUP} /var/log/exim
+			FILTER_LOG=/var/log/exim/filterlog
+			if [ ! -f ${FILTER_LOG} ] ; then touch ${FILTER_LOG} ; fi
+			chown -R ${EXIM_SYSTEM_FILTER_USER}:${EXIM_SYSTEM_FILTER_GROUP} ${FILTER_LOG}
+		fi
+	fi
+	if [ -d /var/spool/exim ]
+	then
+		if [ "${EXIM_USER}:${EXIM_GROUP}" != "`ls -ld /var/spool/exim | awk '{print $3 \":\" $4}'`" ]
+		then
+			chown -R ${EXIM_USER}:${EXIM_GROUP} /var/spool/exim
+		fi
 	fi
 
 	# generate certificate if doesn't exist