I will try the extra slash. On my other system it is not there. Why doesn't
something like that show up in the exim trace log?
--- Vineet Kumar <exim-users@???> wrote:
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> * Keith Goettert (cakoala@???) [030606 11:28]:
> > I must be missing something.
>
> Looks like you're missing a '/', to me.
>
> > userforward:
> > driver = forwardfile
> > file_transport = address_file
> > pipe_transport = address_pipe
> > reply_transport = address_reply
> > no_verify
> > check_ancestor
> > check_local_user = false
> > file = /opt/mail/$local_part.forward
> > modemask = 002
> > filter
>
> shouldn't it be $local_part/.forward ? Or better still, look up the
> home directory via an ldap query? This way you're not limited to
> /opt/mail/username, but can put whatever you like in ldap.
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > When I deliver a message, it gets swept up by local_deliver and the forward
> > director never gets checked. I guess I don't understand how the forward
> > director really works. It seems strange that I would put it AFTER the
> other
> > directors. Still, I have a POP based system running exim without ldap and
> the
> > forward director works great even though it is after all the other
> > directors.(did I miss that paragraph in one of the books?) Anyway, here
> is
> > the output of a successful delivery to the users MailDir EVEN THOUGH HE HAD
> A
> > FORWARD FILE.
>
> This looks consistent. forwardfile comes before localuser, so if you
> have a .forward it works. I'd move your ldap_user director to just
> above localuser, just below forwardfile. I'm not sure what's confusing
> about this part; it's just taking them in order. If you have ldap_user
> first, it's never going to reach forwardfile. On your system with no
> ldap, forwardfile is reached before localuser, so it gets used if the
> .forward is there.
>
> > The forward file is pretty simple right now and only contains my email
> address.
> > Still, I see no attempt to reference the file so I assume that it not a
> > permission problem. I also noticed from the trace that the home directory
> is
> > completely wrong, but it sill manages to deliver to the correct location???
>
> I didn't look closely enough at the LDAP stuff to see why the home
> directory was showing as NULL, but I think the 2 pieces I remarked on
> above will help.
>
> good times,
> Vineet
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