Thanks to everyone for help and ideas. I erroneously wrote last night that the permissions on my .qmail-* files were 744(rwxr--r--), when in fact the permissions are 644 (rw-r--r--). I changed the permissions this morning to 600 for even more security. That wasn't the problem, though, because the forwards and specific ./Maildir-xxx/ delivery instructions have been working all along. There were a couple of problems: 1. I had a .qmail-default file but no .qmail file--I was confused by the various references in the docs to .qmail as a GENERIC reference to any .qmail* file, and other references to .qmail-default. I renamed my .qmail-default file to .qmail (as it should be). Local mail delivery has been working anyway because qmail-start is running with ./Maildir/ as the default delivery option. 2. I didn't specify full paths to the programs I was using. Once I changed |touch qmail-was-here to |/bin/touch /home/greg/qmail-was-here it worked. I'm not clear on what the PATH and other environment variables are set to when .qmail-command executes the command in the .qmail file, but the explicit paths are probably a good idea anyway. My mail filter (written in Python), which tries to identify and process bounces, remove requests, auto-replies, and everything else is now working. Thanks again and I'm sorry for taking a few people out into the weeds by posting the wrong permissions (even I know that qmail is very picky about permissions). ===== Greg Jorgensen Deschooling Society Portland, Oregon, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
