[FIXED] Re: set up a forward

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 08:54, Daniel Vogel wrote:

> By some reason, wich i dont have the time to check .forward file
> didn't work, neither as local ser or as root. The message on maillog
> was:
> 
> Oct  2 10:54:16 copernico sendmail[17237]: j92EsFfN017236: forward
> /home/daniel/.forward: Group writable file

It doesn't take much time to check that reason.  The log
record you included explains it.  chmod g-w .forward would
fix it.  The more common reason for .forward's failing, though,
is that the default permissions on home directories don't let
sendmail read anything under them.

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  Les Mikesell
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