Quick Exim question

[Mike Oliveri]

I've got a currently-working Exim configuration; would I just go ahead and
run the Exim setup script again to populate a new exim.in spool directory?
Of course, that's assuming I can find the Exim setup script the last admin
used... I'm still rather new to Exim and I'm running 3.36 on FreeBSD.

I did fire up MailScanner yesterday after moving everything to that exim.in
directory and ended up with an error message after all. Outlook Express
simply reported refused connections, but Pine said it was unable to create
/var/spool/exim.in. I assume it's related to the above directory problems,
as the permissions on exim and exim.in match.

Would simply eliminating the split spool functionality avoid this problem
altogether?

Take care,
Mike Oliveri
Systems Administrator
UTI Systems, Inc.
moliveri at uti.com
815-941-4555


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Finch" <dot at DOTAT.AT>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: Quick Exim question


> Mike Oliveri <moliveri at UTI.COM> wrote:
> >
> >Because my current config is only running with one config file, I only
have
> >one spool directory: /var/spool/exim/input/*  The new config files will
> >have an input directory of /var/spool/exim.in/input/*, but of course they
> >do not exist yet. The MailScanner Exim configure page says I should
create
> >all the subdirectories of ../input before running MailScanner.
>
> MailScanner's much happier if all the directories it needs exist before it
> starts. There's not much point in taking shortcuts. My Exim setup script
does
>
>         for exim in exim exim.in
>         do
>                 for split in \
>                     a b c d e f g h i j k l m \
>                     n o p q r s t u v w x y z \
>                     A B C D E F G H I J K L M \
>                     N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z \
>                     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
>                 do
>                         run mkdir -p /var/spool/$exim/input/$split
>                 done
>                 run chown -R exim:exim /var/spool/$exim
>                 run chmod -R 0750      /var/spool/$exim
>         done
>
> Tony.
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