Re: [exim] unable to use $home variable in accept router?!

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Autor: Andrew C Aitchison
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Dla: juergen.edner
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Temat: Re: [exim] unable to use $home variable in accept router?!
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Jürgen Edner via Exim-users wrote:

> Hi
> I've spent several hours studying the Exim documentation (chapter 15,
> 16 etc.)s und trying to understand why the following router doesn't
> work reliable on different systems. As far as I understood, the $home
> variable should always be set when check_local_user is being executed.
> The result could then be used in a following pre-condition check.
>
> Although the debug_print shows that the variable has been set,
> the following condition statement fails.
>
> I have the impression that this problem only happens if an accept
> router is used, but a redirect router doesn't run into that problem?!
>
> localuser_maildir:
> driver = accept
> check_local_user
> debug_print = DEBUG-HOME:$home:
> condition = ${if exists{$home/.imapmail/cur}}
> transport = local_delivery_maildir
>
> Trace:
>
> 25242 --------> localuser_maildir router <--------
> 25242 local_part=tom domain=my-domain.dom
> 25242 checking for local user
> 25242 seeking password data for user "tom": cache not available
> 25242 getpwnam() succeeded uid=2001 gid=100
> 25242 DEBUG-HOME:/home/tom:
> 25242 checking "condition" "${if exists{$home/.imapmail/cur}}"...
> 25242 localuser_maildir router skipped: condition failure
> 25242 --------> unknown_user router <--------
>
> Does anyone have an idea why the condition fails and what need to
> be done to get it running?


Stupid questions first:

Does /home/tom/.imapmail/cur exist ?
Does the user/group under which exim is running have 'x' permissions on
/home/tom/ and /home/tom/.imapmail ?

ie can we see the result of
ls -ld /home/tom /home/tom/ /home/tom/.imapmail /home/tom/.imapmail/cur
please ?

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