Re: [exim] spool directories

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Autor: Peter Bowyer
Datum:  
To: exim users
Betreff: Re: [exim] spool directories
On 16/09/05, Jonathan Carpenter <exim.list@???> wrote:
> I have 3 mail servers one pop3 server and 2 smtp servers. My smtp servers
> place everything that is in the mail que in /var/spool/exim/input/
>
> however my pop3 server places the mail that is in the que in
> /var/spool/exim/input/ and in the input directory there are numbers 0-9 and
> a-z and A-Z , exim seems to be separating the spools according to the first
> character of the que name. I do have exim setup to hash out the username of
> the user that gets email for example if joe was sent an email it gets sent
> to /spool1/j/o/joe and in joe there are new/ cur/ tmp/ but I am not sure why
> my mail que gets hashed out the way it does. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.


You have split_spool_directory set. Whilst it may not be necessary,
it's probably not breaking anything....

It's the 6th character of the message-id that's used as the directory name.

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_14.html#IX1461

Peter

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