On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, listrcv wrote: > Exim would create lots of directories when in some errorneous setup a > string expansion (or whatever) unexpectedly yields a subdirectory that > is maybe a thousand or a twentythousand levels deep.
Lots of things start failing when path names get longer than 256 characters (or perhaps 1024). I think 256 is a POSIX limit. > It could end up in running into some file system limit (like no more > free inodes though space left on the device) after creating 199999 > directories, fail the delivery and leave a mess of a useless directory > tree around. That might also block deliveries to other users. If you are worried about this, set create_directory = no I personally do not think it is worth implementing anything more sophisticated. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
