Re: Local user permission problem?

Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:43:28 +0000
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On 2025/10/29 11:41 AM, Laura Williamson via Exim-users wrote:
> local_delivery defer (-1): Tainted '/var/usermail/MAILDIR9/username (file or directory name for local_delivery transport) not permitted
> 
> I do not have that problem with 4.98., I look up the directory like this
> 
> directory = ${extract{5}{:}{${lookup{$local_part}dbm{/etc/passwd.dbm}}}}/Maildir

This smells like a bug in dbm lookups.  Investigating.
-- 
Cheers,
   Jeremy

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