[plug] Exim mailbox relocation.

[Shayne]

Problem there is , 
(A) across a lot of users causes probs.
(B) Loads a pine heads.

Basically havent moved whole spool as I'm nervous about having to shut 
down email for move. slooooow pc.

On Thursday 28 November 2002 16:25, Matt Kemner proclaimed:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, quoth Shayne:
> > Most things on the deb boxen relocate beautifully, even across NFS.
> > But exim spits hard on it claiming "not a mailbox" (obviously looking
> > at the symlink and not the linked to file).
>
> Can you move the entire mailspool, and symlink the directory?
>
> > Also, how does one go about hooking into exim to get it to feed mails
> > to a particular email box straight into a bit of code.
>
> set up a .forward in the user's home directory which contains:
> |/path/to/funky/code
>
> eg I had a .forward set up that did:
> "|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75 #zombie"
>
> but I've now got postfix set up to use procmail as it's delivery agent.
>
>  - Matt