User's home dir does not exist?

[Julian Field]

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/var/spool/postfix is a better idea.

Nick Twaddell wrote:

>What should I use for postfix's home dir?  Just /etc/postfix?
>
>Nick
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>SpamAssassin needs to write some files into the postfix's home directory.
>You need to edit your /etc/passwd file to put a real directory (owned by the
>postfix user) in the user's line.
>
>Nick Twaddell wrote:
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>>Has anyone experienced this problem?
>>
>>User's home directory /no/dir does not exist
>>
>>Everytime it tries to process a message I get that in my error log.
>>I'm using postfix+mailscanner by the way.
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>>Thanks
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>>Nick
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