Re: [Exim] local delivery and $home

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Author: T. Horsnell (tsh)
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To: exim-users
Subject: 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.


Thanks. I'm spoilt for choice now!

Terry.

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