Dne Thursday 17 August 2006 17:39 Marc Haber napsal(a): > Hi, > > 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?
Because any error that will make $HOME unaccessible (maybe even temporarily) will skip users .forward and .procmailrc, probably leading to bigger trouble? Ax -- Václav Hůla, správce unixových serverů Přírodovědecká fakulta Univerzita Karlova v Praze -- ## 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/
