.forward file seems to be ignored

[Paul Smith]

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