.forward file seems to be ignored

[Paul Smith]

On 1/7/06, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> 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?

Paul