[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot, Outlook Express and new accounts

[Chris Hills]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> On 2004.09.01 16:38, news.gmane.org wrote:
> 
>>
>> Well spotted! I overlooked this. Thanks to David for pointing me 
>> towards the ignore_eacces and ignore_enotdir directives. Having added 
>> these to the userforward router, the mail gets as far as the 
>> local_delivery router, but again failing with:-
>>
>> 2004-09-01 14:47:13 1C2VSD-0000HJ-JW == username at ne-worcs.ac.uk 
>> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (2): No such file or directory: 
>> failed to chdir to /home/group/username
>>
>> The directory /home/group/username does not already exist; exim should 
>> try and create it.
> 
> 
> Exim doesn't run as root so it can't just create directories
> anywhere.
> 
> If /home/group is writeable by the same group-id exim runs as,
> then exim will be able to create the directory, otherwise it won't.
> 
> Mike.
> 

Hi Mike

I have had conversations with several people about this. Even when 
setting modes on /home/group to 777, exim still defers with the same 
message.

Regards

-- 
Chris Hills
IT Services
North East Worcestershire College