Re: Vexim Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:32:10AM +0100, Maarten te Paske wrote:
> I have a question that is not really related to this thread, but as you
> are rewriting it form the core maybe it is:
> 
> I am in the process of moving all services on my server to VM's. I'd
> like to run vexim on a different VM than the one where exim (and mysql)
> is running. With the current version of vexim this works for the most
> part, but when I try to add new local domains it returns an error,
> probably because the local mailspool directory (/var/spool/vmail) does
> not exist.
> 
> Would it be an idea to make this an option? I think of a script that
> runs periodically (via cron) that creates all the required directories
> in the mailspool, or something like that.

Great! That's easy to do. In fact it could be corrected in the PHP
version (but I'm guessing you already have a workaround).

Yes we can definitely have a "mailspool_is_local" option.
In future we could also have the ability to SSH to the mail server and
make directories, if you want :-)