On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> I suppose it could perhaps regard "not a directory" as a positive
> indication that there is no .forward file, though I'm not sure I'm
> convinced. Remember that the forwardfile driver is used for things other
> than user's personal .forward files, and in those cases such an error
> might well indicate a configuration problem.
This works in both smail and sendmail. Maby make it an option, it's not
desperatley needed. This is just one things that other people might note
and be frustrated over when trying to switch over to exim.
> I thought the way to prevent shell access was to set up the user's
> *shell* as something like /dev/null rather than their home directory?
Here both of them are changed. This will save one inode :)
> You can, however, cope with this if you want to, though it's a bit
> contorted. Set up a localuser director with the match_directory option
> before the forwardfile director, in order to pick off those users before
> it tries to look for their .forward files.
Ok, I'll try that.
Best Regards
Daniel Ryde, System Administrator
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