Re: [Exim] exim failing to find users

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著者: Philip Hazel
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To: Nico Erfurth
CC: Phil Chambers, exim-users@exim.org
題目: Re: [Exim] exim failing to find users
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Nico Erfurth wrote:

> > The system uses NIS for the password and group files.


> You should use a nis-lookup somewhere in your acl, that evaluates to true
> all the time and defers otherwise, or use a router that does a nis-lookup,
> so it defers on failure. The getpwnam interface has no return-code for
> temporary errors.
>
> Phil recently added a FAQ entry about this.


Something else you can do to alleviate NIS problems is to set
finduser_retries to something, say 4 or 5.

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