Roland Illig wrote:
> I'm starting to use exim to replace an outdated qmail installation, and
> it works fine up to now. I am handling multiple domains, and I thought I
> could choose this directory layout:
>
> for mailboxes:
> /var/mailboxes/$domain/$local_part/{new,cur,tmp}
>
> for redirections:
> /var/mailboxes/$domain/$local_part
> (a regular file containing the redirections)
>
> In the routing section of the configuration file, I tried to separate
> these things apart using require_files:
>
> for redirections:
> require_files = !/var/mailboxes/$domain/$local_part/.
> for mailboxes:
> require_files = /var/mailboxes/$domain/$local_part/.
>
> This setup would ensure that no user can have both a mailbox and a
> redirection at the same. But when I looked at the exim source code, I
> figured out that exim tries to be too clever for me, and that it treats
> all errors except ENOENT as a fatal failure. (For redirections, the
> error is ENOTDIR.)
>
> Is there some clever way to keep my directory layout?
for redirections:
require_files = !/var/mailboxes/$domain/$local_part/cur
Mike
