OT: system ignores .forward file

[Scott Silva]

Chris Yuzik spake the following on 3/16/2007 9:51 AM:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I can't seem to get the system to look at the .forward file in the
> user's home dir. I've checked the permissions of the .forward file and
> it seems fine too.
> 
>    # pwd
>    /home/domain1.com/homes/someguy
> 
>    # ls -lha
>    total 20K
>    drwxr-xr-x 4 someguy at domain1.com <mailto:someguy at domain1.com>
>    domain1.com 4.0K Mar 16 09:23 .
>    drwxr-xr-x 4 domain1.com domain1.com 4.0K Feb 26 20:57 ..
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 someguy at domain1.com <mailto:someguy at domain1.com>
>    domain1.com 21 Mar 16 09:23 .forward
> 
>    # cat .forward
>    someotherguy at domain2.com <mailto:someotherguy at domain2.com>
> 
> When a message comes in to someguy at domain1.com
> <mailto:someguy at domain1.com>, rather than the system reading the
> .forward file and forwarding it over to someotherguy at domain2.com
> <mailto:someotherguy at domain2.com>, the system just puts it in the
> mailbox for someguy at domain1.com <mailto:someguy at domain1.com> as though
> the .forward file wasn't there.
> 
> The maillog isn't particularly helpful:
> 
>    # grep l2GGNf6t011416 /var/log/maillog
>    Mar 16 09:23:45 devel sendmail[11416]: l2GGNf6t011416:
> from=<someone at domain1.com>, size=388, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<45FAC486.40208 at domain1.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MSA,
> relay=S010600090f409322.vs.shawcable.net [xx.xxx.xx.xxx]
>    Mar 16 09:23:56 devel MailScanner[23006]: Logging message
> l2GGNf6t011416 to SQL
>    Mar 16 09:23:56 devel MailScanner[8197]: l2GGNf6t011416: Logged to
> MailWatch SQL
>    Mar 16 09:23:56 devel sendmail[11464]: l2GGNf6t011416:
> to=<someguy at domain1.com>, delay=00:00:11, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
> pri=120388, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> 
> I'm running Sendmail 8.13 and Procmail 3.22 on Centos 4.4.
> 
> I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this issue. Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
Did gmane munge your .forward cat to have an e-mail address and a mailto: line?
If it actually reads like this ;

 "someotherguy at domain2.com <mailto:someotherguy at domain2.com>"

that might be the problem. Otherwise, nevermind. ;-P


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