On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:51 AM, dave mccann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I want to learn more about how Exim works and wondered if anyone knows the 
> script that Exim runs to create the mailbox directory for a new user? does it 
> also run a separate script to add the user details?  I am just trying to find 
> out how Exim works on the back end.

There isn't a separate script for creating the mailbox directory.
Exim can deliver directly to a maildir or custom located mailbox, so
the capability to create the user's mail directory is built into the
code for exim.  If the "create_directory" setting is true, then it
will attempt to create the mailspool/maildir structure.  So if you
have a /mail/users subdirectory, and the user's maildir is set to
"/mail/users/e/x/a/example.com/myron/Maildir/, then exim will create
(if it can) /mail/users/e/x/a/example.com/myron/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}.

...Todd
-- 
The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is $0.
 If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want,
send it the way the spec says to. --John Levine

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