I'm trying to forward a local account's e-mail to an outside e-mail
address.  I placed the .forward file in the users home directory
however that doesn't seem to work.  I'm using sendmail on Linux. 
Thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by sgtcory-ga on 10 Dec 2003 07:20 PST

Hello johngl,

Since this is more of a troubleshooting question, I will need to offer
a few rounds of clarification. Take a look at this - I believe you may
be having similar issues :


"Sendmail will refuse to consider a .forward with write access for anyone
but the user. Set permission 644. The .forward file must be owned by the
user itself or by root."
http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/2003.01/msg00003.html


Try to CHMOD the file to 644. Also CHOWN the file to the user or root
and let me know what happens. Sometimes users log in as an admin user
and create or FTP files to the server. This can cause problems in
situations like yours.

Thanks for the clarification -

SgtCory

please check the attribute of the .forward file.

Usually you need to be in rw-------

Otherwise it is not work

And also please check the /var/log/maillog for detail.

Also make sure that .forward consists of exactly one line: the
email-Adress you want the mail to be forwarded to.
For example:
whatever@nowhere.com