On 2024-09-03 Peter Chubb via Pkg-exim4-maintainers <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: exim4-base > Version: 4.98-1 > Severity: normal
> Dear Maintainer, > After a recent apt update and reboot, exim4 started and grabbed a > reference to /home before autofs started making home directories > available. This meant it could not deliver email. > Autofs map for /home looks like: > * nfs-server:/export/home/& > exim4 needs to look for ~/.forward when delivering email; (and we often end up > delivering into ~/Mail/inbox for each user) > I think exim4's systemd unit file needs something like > After= ... remote-fs.target autofs.service > RequireMountsFor=/home/someuser > to make sure that home directories are available by the time it starts (but > systemd is a bit of a mystery to me) [...] Hello, Adding remote-fs.target (and nss-user-lookup.target) might be a good idea. Listing autofs.target does not look right to me. There are multiple automounters and autofs.target is just one of them. I could add RequiresMountsFor=/home but not RequireMountsFor=/home/someuser because we do not have someuser that is present on all Debian systems. >From my POV this looks like somthing I cannot /generically/ carter for in the exim service file but needs to be set locally by the admin. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
