On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Paul Smith wrote:
On 1/7/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have just created a .forward file in my home directory, but actually
no forwarding is done. Any clue about that?
Typically a permissions problem: the directory or the .forward file
itself have wrong permissions set.
The permissions are:
drwx------ 103 psmith psmith 4096 Jan 7 16:49 psmith
-rw-rw-r-- 1 psmith psmith 18 Jan 7 14:57 .forward
Are they appropriate?
Your homedir must have *at least* x for others(all?), else processes not
owned by you (ie, mailer) can't even read your .forward file.
Now I have:
drwx--x--x 103 psmith psmith 4096 Jan 7 18:42 psmith
-rwxrwxr-x 1 psmith psmith 18 Jan 7 14:57 .forward
but no progress. Is there some alternative way (instead of using a
.forward file) of redirecting all mail?
You're getting colder...
Your maillog will tell you that the permissions on .forward are too
generous. Put your homedir permission back the way they were (700)
and make .forward 600.
For security reasons, sendmail insists that all .forward and its parent
directory be marked *not* group writable. It is possible to override this
restriction using the DontBlameSendmail keyword in the configuration, but
don't. (See http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html, Q3.33 or just read
the README in the sendmail docs.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
