Hermann Flacke <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>.
>
> Any way to change that (I had no success with spec.html) ?
>
Your appendfile transport which deals with local deliveries has a 'file'
option - this tells exim where to deliver mail for a local user. You can
change this at will. It's not related to the 'spool_directory' option, which
you probably shouldn't mess with.
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_26.html#IX1920
Peter
