On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Philip Hofstetter wrote:
> So I came to this quite obscure hack, setting file_directory to
> /var/spool/pmail/<<sitename>>/<<username>> and giving the file-option an
> absolute path anyway: /etc/pmail/<<sitename>>/<<username>>.filter. This
> leads $home in the filter-file to be the correct path.
>
> This is obviously against the documentation (there are only relative
> paths used), but it works quite well. So my question: Is this ok? Or is
> there a better solution?
There is no reason why you shouldn't use absolute paths if you want to.
(There is a subtle difference concerned with checking for mounted NFS
directories. If you aren't using NFS, it doesn't matter. In Exim 4 this
has changed, anyway.)
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