Re: [Exim] NFS and require_files

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:31:59AM +0200, Pawel Wilk wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After delivering message to local user I would like to let Exim decide if
> the user exists. :) I would like to do it by testing access to the
> user's maildir. Ok, but I'm using NFS and I don't want messages to be
> dropped or rejected if there was some problem and my NFS devices aren't
> mounted. I know it is impossible to decide whether the user exists and it
AFAIK Exim doesn't have a function to check wheter an NFS-mount is ok or
not, but I would create a file "mount_ok" on the remote server and would then
have exim check, if this file exists on the client. If it does, I know that
my mount succeeded, if it doesn't, then /var/mail isn't mounted correctly.

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CU,
Patrick.
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