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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Why does exim chdir to user's home directory on message delivery?
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Marc Haber wrote:

> >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?


It would be less compatible with software that assumes a Sendmail-like
environment, so I think it's a bad idea.

Tony.
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