Re: [exim] user= in routers

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Author: Maxim
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To: exim-users
CC: Graeme Fowler
Subject: Re: [exim] user= in routers
On Суббота 31 марта 2007, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 14:08 +0400, dawnshade wrote:
> > does option 'user = someusername' not worked into routers?
> > spec.txt said:
> >
> > +--------------------------------------------------+
> >
> > |user|Use: routers|Type: string*|Default: see below|
> >
> > +--------------------------------------------------+
> >
> > When a router queues an address for a transport, and the transport does
> > not specify a user, the user given here is used when running the delivery
> > process.
>
> Like it says, user=blah in a router sets the user for the corresponding
> transport (unless the transport then overrides it by specifying
> something else). In your case, the router itself is run by the Exim
> user, hence the "default" uid and gid you mention.
>
> You probably need to set some supplementary groups for your Exim user
> (ie. "vpopmail") and then make sure that the group has read access to
> the files you need to read.


the main problem why i can't use "supplementary groups" - filemode 600, if
configured mode = 0664 and directory_mode = 0755 in correspoding router
anyway no success. seem to be IMAP/POP3 daemon "fix" these permissions for
file maildirsize :(