User's home dir does not exist?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jan 25 09:19:04 GMT 2005


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This line doesn't appear in the latest code, so I must have already
fixed this problem.

Nick Twaddell wrote:

>@extraheaders = @{$this->{mcpheaders}};
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:06 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: User's home dir does not exist?
>
>What is the code around line 2871 of Message.pm ?
>
>Nick Twaddell wrote:
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>>Perfect. Thanks.
>>
>>Its still not scanning messages I don't think.  I put it into debug
>>mode, and I get this
>>
>>Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at
>>/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 2871.
>>
>>Nick
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Julian Field
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:44 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: User's home dir does not exist?
>>
>>/var/spool/postfix is a better idea.
>>
>>Nick Twaddell wrote:
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>>>What should I use for postfix's home dir?  Just /etc/postfix?
>>>
>>>Nick
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>>Behalf Of Julian Field
>>>Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:37 AM
>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>Subject: Re: User's home dir does not exist?
>>>
>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Nick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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