>T. Horsnell (tsh) wrote:
>> We have a periodic clearout of users who have left.
>> Part way through this procedure I disable the home
>> directories of such users, in order to flag up anyone
>> else who may be inadvertently using their files.
>> This caused exim to complain that it couldnt check
>> for the presence of a .forward file in that user's
>> home directory, and so I added a
>>
>> require_files = $home/.forward
>>
>> condition to the userforward router so that it would be
>> skipped if the home directory was unreadable.
>>
>> This seems to work OK, but when the localdelivery transport
>> runs, it seems to want to access the user's home directory
>> even though delivery is directed to /usr/spool/mail/$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. What I wanted to do was to
>be able to create new users simply by adding them to the LDAP database as
>Exim will create directories it needs to for delivery if they don't exist.
>However, it fails to do so because the appendfile transport wants to do
>something with the users home directory which for a new user doesn't exist.
>
>What I've done is to put this in the local_delivery transport (for maildir
>format delivery):
>
> home_directory = HOME
> directory = $home/$local_part/Maildir
>
>HOME is a macro set to one level up from the users "home" directory. The
>appendfile transport now thinks the home directory is the directory one up
>from the uses non-existent "home" directory and happily creates the users
>"home" directory structure for delivery if it doesn't exist.
>
>In your case you could try this:
>
> home_directory = /usr/spool/mail
> file = $home/$local_part
That's done the trick. Many thanks.
Terry.
>
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