On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> The reason I did this was that Exim didn't like delivering to a user
> without a home directory:
>
> 2001-02-05 19:45:25 14Pphc-000HCz-00 == arbuser@??? D=userforward defer (-1): failed to stat /nonexistent (No such file or directory)
There is usually a way round this. Maybe set
file_directory=/
on the director to make it stat a different directory. Wait a minute.
You are talking about /etc/aliases, but that line mentions userforward,
which is looking for a .forward file. How has that happened? An entry in
/etc/alias would, with a conventional configuration, take precedence.
> Using /nonexistent as a home directory for users who aren't allowed
> shell sessions is quite normal in the BSD environment.
>
> However, even with ``group = mail'' in the address_file transport, I
> still get the hitching post permissions problem, which stumps me. If I
> make the /var/mail directory world-writable, arbuser's mailbox is
> created by user nobody, group nobody!
Sounds like you need a user= on the aliasing director. Have you tried
running with -d9 to see what is actually happening.
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