Re: Vexim Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4

Avleen Vig <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:03:09 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.vexim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:36:44AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington 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.
> 
>    $mailroot MUST be created before hand and the correct permissions
>    granted - before you start adding domains.
>    I hope I did not misunderstand your question.

That's a great point!
As long as $mailroot exists, exim should be able to create the remaining
directories I think.
In fact we don't mkdir() anywhere, we just assume the mailroot exists.
Where does the error come up?

Can you send over the full error line? :-)