[cobalt-users] .forward not working anymore

[Matt Syracuse <syracuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Make sure your direct permission is set correctly or that it has not
been change. ie. main parent directory needs rwxr-xr-x in order for
.forward to function, next check the user's home directory permission as
well.

If everything works as normal something simple might of broke the
.forward


- Mike


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Matt Syracuse wrote:

> For some time, I've used a .forward to forward mail to multiple users.

> Recently, this stopped functioning on all my servers - Was there a 
> patch that disabled this 'standard' feature of Linux?
> 
> When I send mail to one account with the .forward, mail just sits 
> there and doesn't get forwarded. I know that if there is a 'Vacation 
> Message' turned on, mail gets forwarded AND sits in the mailbox.  I 
> don't have a Vacation Message turned on.
> 
> Now I have to use the LIST MANAGEMENT function!
> 
> Any solutions?
> RAQ4 - patched up to RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.2-16620.pkg
> 
> Thanks!
>   /\/\att


Mike,
I changed the file permissions as you suggested; still doesn't work. The
forwarding addresses are valid mailboxes on the same system and have
been checked several times. Only a direct forward in the GUI works.

This is the only one that works  - with these permissions!:
-rw-r--r--    1 root     site1        7805 Feb 10 12:38 .forward
And the directory permissions are:  drwxrws--x

How can you explain this? 

  /\/\att