.forward file seems to be ignored
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 19:15:31 UTC 2006
On 1/7/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> 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?
Paul
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