Re: [Exim] change users spool directory

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Nigel Metheringham
Date:  
To: Hermann Flacke
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] change users spool directory
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 21:54, Hermann Flacke wrote:
> My problem: I'm running my fetchmail on SuSE as well as on
> Debian Sarge. So I would like to set a new user's spool
> directory. Setting the value "spool_directory = /suse/var/spool/mail"
> in the /etc/exim4/configure + dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
> doesn't work because the incoming mail still is put into
> /var/spool/mail/<user>.


You have changed the overall exim queue directory by doing that.

You need to change your local delivery transport - which might well be
using procmail for delivery, in which case you need to sort procmail.

    Nigel.


-- 
[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham@??? ]
[ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]