[Wylug-help] exim/vacation problem on RH73

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 12:50 pm, gARetH baBB wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > However, vacation does not actually generate a reply.  Anyone got any
> > ideas why?
> >
> > exim.conf extract:
> >
> > address_pipe:
> >   driver = pipe
> >   user = exim
> >   group = mail
> >   return_output
>
> You're running the .forward as exim:mail ... except ...
>
> > -rw-------    1 myuser   mail           41 Jul 16 17:15 .forward
>
> The .forward isn't actually readable by exim or mail.
>
> Why are you running forwards as exim:mail and not as the user itself ?

This was set when I first configured exim, from reading docs etc. If I
remember rightly, it was a security thing.

Anyway, I've tried removing the user=exim, and I've also tried changing the
permissions to 640, but niether change made any difference.

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