Re: simple exim configuration

[Paul Scott]

David H. Clymer wrote:

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:13, Paul Scott wrote:

Ok. My /etc/exim/exim.conf has:

local_delivery:
driver = appendfile
group = mail
mode = 0660
mode_fail_narrower = false
envelope_to_add = true
return_path_add = true
file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}

but mutt tells me that /var/spool/mail/paul is not a mailbox.

what does: ls /var/mail/paul tell you? is it a file, or a directory?

It's a valid mail file according to /usr/bin/mail

BTW /var/spool/mail is just a symlink to /var/mail, hence my use of it
above.

Understood.

BTW the way where is local_part defined?

${local_part} is taken from the recipiant's email address. if someone
sent you an email (to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) the exim splits up the address on
the @ and sets two variables:

local_part: paul
domain: foo.com

What process does that substitution?

so if you were doing multiple domains on one box, you could do:

file = /var/spool/mail/${domain}/${local_part}

or some such.

That part was clear. I was just expecting local_part to be something that I set somewhere else in exim.conf.

Thanks,

Paul


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