Re: [exim] Why does exim chdir to user's home directory on m…

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Autor: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] Why does exim chdir to user's home directory on message delivery?
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:31:10 +0200, Magnus Holmgren
<holmgren@???> wrote:
>On Thursday 17 August 2006 17:39, Marc Haber took the opportunity to say:
>> in http://bugs.debian.org/383469, the reporter has noticed that exim
>> doesn't deliver e-mail to a user with an inaccessible home directory,
>> even if the delivery target is somewhere else, for example in
>> /var/spool.
>>
>> I can reproduce this.
>>
>> 2006-08-17 17:14:03 1GDjZL-0008M3-Ug == user@??? R=local_user
>> T=mail_spool defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/user
>> with /home/user having mode 000.
>>
>> I am now wondering whether it makes sense (and is desireable) to set
>> home_directory = / on our local delivery transports in the Debian
>> default config.
>
>How about setting the transport's current_directory = / instead?


This works indeed. Should I set this by default in the Debian
packages, or does it have any adverse effects? Would this setting also
be suiteable for exim's default configuration in the release tarball?

Greetings
Marc

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