> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Vian > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 9:40 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: set up a forward > > You can do that one of 2 ways. > A) create the .forward file in the users home directory with the new > email address in it. It is possible that ownership of the .forward is > important. It is certain that sendmail and/or procmail must > be able to > read the .forward file, so permissions may need to be checked. > B) Make an entry in the /etc/aliases file for that user, then run > 'newaliases' for the change to take affect. > > Either of those 2 ways works. A) can be done by the user, B) must be > done by root. Either file can have one or many new addresses > to forward > to. > The plugin I have for Squirrelmail sets the permissions on .forward to 664, works fine with postfix/procmail/dovecot. Brian
