Re: [cobalt-users] .forward not working anymore

["Mike's List" <mikelist@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Matt Syracuse wrote:

> 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? 

drwxrws--x yields rwx for owner and group (w/sticky bit for x) and only
execution for others.  Hence, .forward might only needs r-xr-x--- to
function properly (that is owner/group minimal r-x permission).

The .forward file permission is not important, it is the parent's
directory (and perhaps the user's directory) that's important.  What's
the permission of the parent's (main) directory? and sub-directory
permission of the working .forward and compares that with the directory
that's not working.

You can do the following:

1) List the directory(ies) permission of the non-working .forward and I
   can look at it and make recommendation...or...

2) Try chmod 744 <non-working .forward parent's directory> and see if
   this will work for you, you can always change it back to it's original
   permission or add/minus...


- Mike