On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> Having tested my installation as much as I could I have installed it
> but today I have entries in the logfile like:
>
> 1999-06-21 09:08:15 10vt0A-0005Te-00 == ###@dmu.ac.uk D=userforward defer
> (-1): failed to open /home/###/.forward (userforward director): Permission
> denied (euid=0 egid=1)
>
> where ### is hiding the user's login name.
>
> This is because the user has his home directory NFS mounted from
> elsewhere.
... without root permission, apparently.
> I cannot see anything in the PS version of the manual about
> this, there is only one index entry for NFS, and that doesn't seem to
> explain what I need to set to fix this.
Index may be bad (noted for next edition), the the information is there,
under the "seteuid" option of the forwardfile director.
> What is the correct way to end SMTP sessions into exim? The other admin
> here was trying to expn (which I had not enabled), and in
> Sendmail 8.6.12/8.6.12 we could just type quit to end the session.
Eh? That works normally. Can you reproduce this?
> Should installing exim have any impact on ZPOP?
No.
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