Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:34:59 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Bart Pustjens <skin@takeover.lion-access.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving /var/mail/userbox /home/user/userbox Message-ID: <01012012345902.01091@buffy> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0101201211360.20474-100000@takeover.lion-access.net> References: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0101201211360.20474-100000@takeover.lion-access.net>
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On Saturday 20 January 2001 13:15, Bart Pustjens wrote: > Hi! > > For several reasons I want to move the mail account > from one user to his home dir. I moved the file > from /var/mail to /home/user and made a symbolic > link (ln -s /home/user/userbox /var/mail/userbox). > The file userbox in /home/user/ has (ofcourse?) the > rights of the user (and the group of the user). > But for some weird reason sendmail gives an error > when accepting mail for this user: > > ... while talking to local: > >>> DATA > > <<< 550 5.2.0 /var/mail/userbox: irregular file > 554 <mark@[213.51.33.242]>... Service unavailable > > What did I do wrong ? Well it simply sounds like sendmail doesn't resolve symbolic links for mail box names. Maybe it just does an (f)stat on the file and see it is not a normal file. Just a suggestion Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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