I just spent a couple of aggravating hours trying to figure out why a ~/.forward file was not working for a business associate on my mail server (which uses sendmail).
The user's .forward file must be 644 (not 664), that is rw-r--r-- . Not group writable. If sendmail doesn't like the permissions on the .forward file, it silently ignores it, leaving nothing in the log file. That is stupid behavior; log files should indicate error conditions, not just success. This is referred to only cryptically in some of the documentation I found, referring only to a "safe" forward file. A debug nightmare, until I started frobbing permissions. I added a # comment to the fellow's .forward file about the required permission. So, check all user's .forward files to make sure they are 644. The users themselves get to write to these files, but don't necessarily know how to set them up. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
