Re: .forward on /dev/null homedir freeze

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Daniel Ryde
CC: Exim Users
Subject: Re: .forward on /dev/null homedir freeze
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Daniel Ryde wrote:

> 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.


But do they do the right thing when an NFS-mounted home directory isn't
there?

Of course, I could also make a special case of /dev/null...

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