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Re: Exim


Pierre,

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:56:39AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > >> var/exim/spool/
> > 
> > > I would prefer var/spool/exim...
> 
> OK, I have no preferences. I was just trying to follow the instructions
> from the Cygwin web:
> --localstatedir=/var
> That makes a lot of sense to me. /var/exim denotes the fact that the files
> under it are private to exim, which is the case.
> /var/spool/exim looks more like shared files.

To be quite honest, I'm not very knowledgeable is this area.  I just
tried to follow existing packages when I made my own private build of
exim.  I'm quite willing to go with the consensus.

> Nobody said anything about the mail spool directory (where the user
> mboxes are): /var/mail (and not /var/spool/mail).

Oops!

> Is that OK (it's under user control anyway)?
> Isn't /var/mail the mutt default?

I think that mutt's default is /var/mail.  At least, that is what I
gleaned by reading mutt's (1.4i) configure script.  However, I would
prefer /var/spool/mail.

> > >> etc/postinstall/exim.sh
> > 
> > > What about the creation of the exim user, mail group, etc. in the above?
> > > I know that it's a lot of work, but it should help to mitigate the
> > > support effort.
> 
> I am very reluctant to have an automatic script create groups or users without
> any warning. On the other hand having that in a user-run script such as 
> /bin/ssh-host-config is OK.

A user run script is fine -- it would just be nice to capture the setup
to ease installation.

> The difficulty is that there are many ways to operate a mailer.

I know it's a lot of work.  Please feel free to ignore this suggestion.
Did I provide a config script for PostgreSQL? :,)

Jason


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