[vexim] vexim not creating local delivery folders

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Free BSD <freebsd at vfemail.net> wrote:

> Avleen Vig wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I think you're experiencing something quite common.
> > It's both a bug and a feature, of both vexim and exim :-)
> > I thought I had fixed it in vexim long ago, but no-one's really
> > complained so I haven't worried about it :)
> >
> > Vexim does not create any directories or files on the filesystem.
> > The directories are supposed to be created the first time a message is
> > sent to an account, by Exim. They won't exist until they receive the
> > first mail.
> >
> > There was a work around which caused Vexim to send an email to new
> > accounts, but it hasn't worked quite right.
> > Try sending the account you created a new email and see if the entire
> > directory structure is created.
> >
> Dear Avleen
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I tried as you suggested. I sent a mail through the telnet session at
> port 25. Everything went well until I finished it, the last line said
>
> 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
>
> the mainlog said
> temporarily rejected after DATA
>
> and so said the rejectlog.
>
> I can manually create the folders -- and it will more likely work. But
> I'd prefer this to be automated.
>
> Anything else I should look into?
>

You first have to create the $mailroot (the path you specified in
variables.php) and ensure that it is writeable by uid exim runs under.

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Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
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