Re: New TMDA install

On 12/19/06, Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
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> David Bandel wrote:
> > Originally, they had:
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> > DELIVERY = "/var/mail/%s"
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> Is that literally exactly what's in the configuration file? If so,
> that's the problem; the string contains a "%s" that's meant to be
> substituted with the user's user ID or email address etc., but there's
> no actual value provided to provide the substitution.
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> Typically, you'd write something like this:
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> DELIVERY = "/var/mail/userid"
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> If you put this into ~/.tmda/config, you can literally write this line,
> and manually perform the substitution per user.
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> If you want to put this into /etc/tmdarc so it's shared across all
> users, you'd have to write:
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> DELIVERY = "/var/mail/%s" % userid
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> where userid is user's ID. For example, you might:
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> DELIVERY = "/var/mail/%s" % os.environ.get("USER")

the above is what was in there yesterday (when I was getting the error
about /var/mail/None doesn't exist.

Guess I have to study Python now too. :-(

Changed it back to the way it was.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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