Re: New TMDA install

David Bandel wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> David Bandel wrote:
>>>> 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. :-(
>> Assuming "the above" means the part I quoted above, that simply means
>> the the environment variable named USER isn't set. Either change USER to
>> the correct environment variable name for your environment, or have
>> whatever system is invoking tmda-rfilter set the USER environment variable.
> 
> the "system" invoking tmda-rfilter is tmda-filter (invoked by
> procmail, which is called by sendmail and is passed the uid).

I'd guess you could get procmail to set USER how you want.

Or, some Python code into /etc/tmdarc;-)

> OK, making the line /var/mail/<username> (substituting the user's name
> for <username>) makes the errors go away.  So now I need to find the
> appropriate variable to call to get the user name.  With as many users
> as I have, will need to write a Perl script to rip through all the
> users /home dirs and change their ~/.tmda/config file.

If you put the definition of DELIVERY in the per-user config file, then
yes, you'll probably have to do some work to patch this up.

> Do I need the /etc/tmdarc file?

It can be useful to share common (possibly parameterized) values.

For example, in my case, I have this in /etc/tmdarc:

DELIVERY = "~/Maildir/"

The ~ expands to the user's HOME directory.

This means I only have to define this in one place, and hence
maintenance is easier; the "code" isn't replicated in each user's
~/.tmda/config file.

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