Re recently had this problem - turned out to be the ForwadFile director
trying to set it's working directory to something silly. This option in
the director solves the problem when the home directory is set to
/nonexistant in our case:
condition = ${if exists{$home}{true}{} }
.. which makes it only try it if the home directory exists
Scot
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Jacob Kuntz <jake@???> probably said:
> > i'm having a problem with exim not writing mail to users mailboxes when the
> > user has a homedir set to /dev/null in /etc/passwd.
>
> My guess would be that it's looking for ~/.forward and such and failing
> (but you didn't tell us what your config is, so I'm only guessing).
> It might also be failing on trying to set the cwd to /dev/null for $home.
>
> Run `exim -qff -v -d90` to find out exactly what it's deferring on.
>
> How you get around them depends on what is going wrong ...
>
> P.
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