Bug#989608: Create /var/spool/exim4/msglog.OLD upon installation

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2021-06-08 Thomas Landauer <thomas at landauer.at> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Severity: wishlist

> It looks like the /var/spool/exim4/msglog.OLD directory is only created by
> Exim itself after the first messagelog is going to be written there.

> If you need custom permissions on this directory, it would be nice to be
> able to set those permissions right within the deployment process, i.e.
> before Exim has sent any mail. So I'm suggesting to create it right away,
> during the installation.

> I've already suggested this at https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2768
> but got the answer that this is more a distribution thing :-)

Hello Thomas,

/var/spool/exim4/msglog.OLD is only used if a specific exim4 setting is
enabled which is not enabled by default. So enabling this requires a
local manual step and when you do it you can also mkdir the directory
with specific local permissions. You can use dpkg-statoverride
which you could not use before, but that is a small win, imho.
The benefit-cost-ratio seems to be off, shipping an empty directory in
millions of installations that is going to be useless for all but a few
installations.

cu Andreas
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