Re: [exim] Delivery to local users without a home directory

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Συντάκτης: Philip Hazel
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Προς: Philip Craven
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Delivery to local users without a home directory
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Philip Craven wrote:

>    This may seem a rather unusual and dangerous requirement, but is there
> any way to force exim to deliver mail (to /var/mail) for a user who doesn't
> yet have a home directory!
>    I have managed to get past the check for a .forward file by checking
> for the existence of $home and using a global empty .forward if this fails.
> However delivery still gets deferred in the next router with a chdir failure.


If you mean chdir on the transport, look at current_directory for the
transport. Else look at router_home_directory.

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