[Pkg-exim4-users] no_verify on userforward

Marc Haber mh+pkg-exim4-users at zugschlus.de
Thu Jun 7 18:31:54 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:48:05PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-users at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > why would we want to set no_verify on the userforward router? Can
> > anybody explain please?
> 
> Hello,
> In verifying mode exim runs as exim_user and therefore cannot read
> ~/.forward if the file and directory permissions disallow it for
> unprivileged users.

Thanks for that explanation. I missed that.

Greetings
Marc, moving a ":fail: no such user" to /etc/aliases

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