Dne Thursday 17 August 2006 17:39 Marc Haber napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Is there a reason why exim's default example configuration doesn't do
> this?
Because any error that will make $HOME unaccessible (maybe even temporarily)
will skip users .forward and .procmailrc, probably leading to bigger trouble?
Ax
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Václav Hůla,
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