[Pkg-exim4-users] Local delivery to accounts without home directories

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth "Neil S. Briscoe" <neil.briscoe at censornet.com>:
> Sebastian Tennant wrote:
>> Quoth Robert Steinmetz AIA <rob at steinmetznet.com>:
>>> Sebastian Tennant wrote:
>>>> Quoth "Neil S. Briscoe" <neil.briscoe at censornet.com>:
>>>>> If the user doesn't have a home directory, you have to give the poor 
>>>>> mail system some clue as to where it should deliver things.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where did you have in mind?
>>>>
>>>> The usual location, i.e., the mbox file in the spool directory;
>>>> /var/mail/<user> on a stock Debian box. 
>>>
>>> There is a configuration option to deliver all mail to /var/spool/<user> 
>>> if that is what you want.
>> 
>> I think that option is already in play, i.e., this is where mail is
>> already being delivered, but I've just discovered that it only works if
>> the user in question has a home directory.
>
> You will probably find that the router being used calls
> check_local_user a description of which can be found at
> http://exim.choma.hu/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch15.html

That sounds like a very good tip.  I'll check it first thing tomorrow.
Thanks.

>>> I understood you wanted a conditional delivery, to use /var/spool only 
>>> if there is no user home directory.
>> 
>> Yes, sorry.  I realise now that the wording of my original post was not
>> at all clear in that respect.
>
> So if you want to find what calls check_local_user first use
>
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bt user
>
> which will output a list of routers called, ending in the router that is 
> actually used.
>
> Now you can check whether that router really does use check_local_user 
> and if so, remove that check - if that is what you really want.  Or 
> perhaps one of the other options will work for you.

Another valuable piece of advice.  Thanks again.

Seb
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