I'm still getting the same problem.
I took the existence check out of the router, so now it is :-
localuser:
driver = accept
domains = +local_domains
transport = local_delivery
and my local delivery transport is :-
local_delivery:
driver = appendfile
directory = ${perl {get_user_dir}{$local_part}{$domain}}
user = exim
file_must_exist
no_check_owner
maildir_format
mode = 0660
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
quota = ${lookup{$local_part@$domain}dbm{/etc/mail/quota.db}}
but mail for non-existant users is still remaining on the queue, with these messages :-
2005-01-20 10:37:16 1CoPjW-0006zD-Pb == fred@??? R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (-1): Expansion of "${perl {get_user_dir}{$local_part}{$domain}}" (file or directory name
+for local_delivery transport) failed: Perl subroutine "get_user_dir" returned undef to force failure
2005-01-20 10:37:16 End queue run: pid=16142
so is there something i can change in my local_delivery router so that it will fail immediately if there is no directory?
to answer the question posed by Fred Viles :-
"
That should work. But if you can change the pathname pattern to
"data/mail/mydomain.com/username" you can simplify your configuration
(and make it more readable IMHO):
require_files = /data/mail/$domain/$local_part
"
- I cant do that as the mail directories are on different /data_nn partitions (data_01 , data_02, data_03 etc).
on 19.01.05, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, oliverj wrote:
> >
> > so if the mail is for fred@??? and there is a mail directory on the server
> > for this user then the perl subroutine will return
> >
> > "/data/mail/mydomain/fred"
> >
> > and then exim can deliver the message into this directory.
> > and if the users mail directory does not exist then the perl subroutine returns undef.
>
> > localuser:
> > driver = accept
> > domains = +local_domains
> > require_files = ${perl {get_user_dir}{$local_part}{$domain}}
> > transport = local_delivery
>
> You should change your perl routine so that it does not do the existence
> check. When the perl routine returns undef the require_files precondition
> does nothing so the router accepts the address despite the file not
> existing. When the perl routine returns a path the require_files
> precondition is redundant because you've already checked that the file
> exists. If you just return the string then Exim will do the existence
> check, and if it fails the router will not accept the address and
> address verification will fail, which is what you want.
>
> Tony.
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