On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:31:10 +0200, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thursday 17 August 2006 17:39, Marc Haber took the opportunity to say: >> 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. > >How about setting the transport's current_directory = / instead?
This works indeed. Should I set this by default in the Debian packages, or does it have any adverse effects? Would this setting also be suiteable for exim's default configuration in the release tarball? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## 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/
