Well, funny enough as it is, I *do* use Maildir format. It seems though
that since local delivery is set AFTER the $home/.forward stuff it doesn't
even get to the local delivery part to try that. It's just hitting the
.forward rule, saying "/dev/null/.forward" is not a directory and deferring
delivery, only to flood my mail log with another few hundred attempts for
all the emails destined to the http user.
Maybe the answer is to do some type of condition test on the forwarding
router to ensure that $home is a directory, or that maybe $home/.forward is
a normal file and exists.
Looks like I'll have to fiddle around with it a bit, I just think it's silly
that the .forward rule is failing, but Exim is determined that eventually it
will find that .forward file and it can deliver it (or at least get to the
next router/transport)!
Eli.
-----Original Message-----
From: ODHIAMBO Washington [
mailto:wash@wananchi.com]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:35 AM
To: Eli
Subject: Re: [Exim] Deferred delivery to user account with /dev/null as home
dir
* Eli <eli@???> [20030627 17:25]: wrote:
> I was hoping more for a setting to reject emails attempting to be sent to
> any account who's got /dev/null as a home dir or something - maybe I
should
> just put those system accounts in the never_users setting and leave it at
> that :)
It's as easy as setting the wrong permissions to those home directories.
Exim will grok and reject the mail if you use Maildir format.
-Wash
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