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: paul@foo.com) 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.
Thanks, Paul