Re: [Exim] local delivery and $home

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Συντάκτης: Philip Hazel
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Προς: Nigel Wade
Υ/ο: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [Exim] local delivery and $home
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Nigel Wade wrote:

> > This seems to work OK, but when the localdelivery transport
> > runs, it seems to want to access the user's home directory
> > even though delivery is directed to /usr/spool/mail/$local_part
> > This generates a 'permission-denied' error.
> >
> > Any suggestions? (Apologies for the length of the attached bumpf)
> >
> > Terry.
> >
>
> Yep, I've noticed that, and it's quite annoying.


By default, Exim will set the user's home directory as the current
directory while it is doing a local delivery. You can change this by
specifying, for example,

current_directory = /

on the relevant transport.

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