Sendmail not forwarding under F12

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 11/30/2009 03:52:17 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> 2009/11/30 Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>:
> > With the installation of F12, Sendmail is no longer honoring
> > my .forward -- nothing has changed (except the permissions, I've
> been
> > hacking). Mail is delivered to /var/mail/geoff
> >
> > /var/log/maillog
> > Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3272]: nAUMY4Fn003272: to=geoff,
> > ctladdr=geoff (500/500), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03,
> mailer=relay,
> > pri=30207, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> > (nAUMY4tR003273 Message accepted for delivery)
> > Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273: forward
> /home/
> > geoff/.forward.mtranch: Permission denied
> > Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273: forward
> /home/
> > geoff/.forward: Permission denied
> > Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273:
> > to=<geoff at mtranch.mtranch.com>, ctladdr=<geoff at mtranch.mtranch.com>
> > (500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, 
> pri=30706,
> > dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> >
> > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> > O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileinunsafedirpath,
> > forwardfileinunsafedirpathsafe
> >
> >
> > geoff at mtranch[4]->ll ~/.forward
> > -r--------. 1 geoff geoff 33 2009-11-30 10:36 /home/geoff/.forward
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> 1) Assuming this worked before when the permissions were like that,
> check for SELinux messages in /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure
> 
> 2) Change the permissions - I think the sendmail user might prefer
> read permissions on that file and the directories above it, as I'm 
> not
> sure it runs as the user (I don't play with sendmail much these 
> days).

Sam, thanks for the reply.

1) Nothing there, alas.
2) Permissions in the parent directories are drwxr-xr-x.