On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:39 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > in http://bugs.debian.org/383469, the reporter has noticed that exim > doesn't deliver e-mail to a user with an inaccessible home directory, > even if the delivery target is somewhere else, for example in > /var/spool. > > I can reproduce this. > > 2006-08-17 17:14:03 1GDjZL-0008M3-Ug == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/user > with /home/user having mode 000. > > I am now wondering whether it makes sense (and is desireable) to set > home_directory = / on our local delivery transports in the Debian > default config. > > Is there a reason why exim's default example configuration doesn't do > this?
IMHO that would just be cluttering up the configuration file. a home directory being 000 (or 400) is such a big error that I'd want to be told about it, anyway. the default configuration also checks for $HOME/.forward, so it will never get as far as the transport (assuming $HOME is on NFS, of course). -- Kjetil T. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
