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| author | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-08-18 12:15:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-08-18 16:32:31 +0100 |
| commit | 11648bc678ff05c3d677030b1ae8bdd752338078 (patch) | |
| tree | 569d32dbb486ad29a1ad05657b1206a6cb035652 /docs/installing/email.md | |
| parent | 4fb62304e89afd4a92a5cfdf085604cdcf599304 (diff) | |
Instructions to create the backupfoi user
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diff --git a/docs/installing/email.md b/docs/installing/email.md index 7c36db56d..e443ed1bb 100644 --- a/docs/installing/email.md +++ b/docs/installing/email.md @@ -174,7 +174,14 @@ Setting `extract_addresses_remove_arguments` to `false` gets exim to treat the ` In this section, we'll add config to pipe incoming mail for special Alaveteli addresses into Alaveteli, and also send them to a local backup -mailbox. Create the `backupfoi` UNIX user, and then create `/etc/exim4/conf.d/router/04_alaveteli` to specify an exim `router` for special Alaveteli addresses, which will route messages into Alaveteli using a local pipe transport: +mailbox. + +Create the `backupfoi` UNIX user + + adduser --quiet --disabled-password \ + --gecos "Alaveteli Mail Backup" backupfoi + +Specify an exim `router` for special Alaveteli addresses, which will route messages into Alaveteli using a local pipe transport: cat > /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/04_alaveteli <<'EOF' alaveteli_request: |