Re: [exim] why "no_verify" on userforward router?

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Autor: Magnus Holmgren
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] why "no_verify" on userforward router?
On Friday 01 June 2007 09:38, Marc Haber wrote:

> may I ask why the userforward router in the exim default configure
> file has the "no_verify" option set? Ths prevents the use of ":fail:"
> in a ~/.forward file (at least it causes accept-and-bounce behavior),
> and I do not see any advantage here.


Weren't you satisfied with Andreas's answer on
pkg-exim4-users? "In verifying mode exim runs as exim_user and therefore
cannot read ~/.forward if the file and directory permissions disallow it for
unprivileged users." In the case of filters there are additional implications.

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