Exim
Jason Tishler
jason@tishler.net
Mon Aug 26 09:12:00 GMT 2002
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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