Bug#383469: exim4: exim fails to deliver mails to users whose $HOME's it cannot access

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:42:39PM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote:
> There is a workaround (add home_directory = / to maildir: -section of exim's
> configuration file), but since accessing the home directory in the first place
> is not necessary, I consider this a bug to be fixed.

A somewhat less ugly workaround is setting current_directory = / on
the transport. I am currently
(http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20060814/msg00119.html)
discussing this on the upstream mailing list whether having this in
debian's default config would be desireable, and/or whether this might
be suitable for the default config.

Greetings
Marc

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