Subject: Re: .forward isn't
From: Conrad Hirano (conrad_hirano@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 14:24:41 MST
on 3/15/01 11:43 AM, christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca at
christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca wrote:
>
> Greetings YDL folks,
>
> I have a strange thing happening on one of my servers, and I was
> wondering if anyone here might know the cause.
>
> I have an account setup which owns the pages of the web server (for use
> with netatalk and cgiwrap). It was also receiving CC's of every CGI
> generated email, which I had been forwarding to my mail box via a
> '.forward' file. For some reason, this (the mail forwarding) just stopped
> working, and I can't seem to find a cause for it. I haven't changed the
> system config, and when I finger the username it states that the mail is
> indeed being forwarded to the right account. I've upgraded the kernel
> since then, hoping that *maybe* a reboot might refresh something, but this
> didn't help.
>
> This isn't critical, but it is really bugging me that this is not working,
> any ideas/thoughts would be much appreciated.
Check the permissions on the directories and partition on which the .forward
file resides. I read somewhere that if your home directory is writable by
others, the .forward file is ignored to avoid allowing someone to steal your
e-mail. However, I found that even if my home directory had the correct
permissions, if the partition had "incorrect" permission settings, the
system would still ignore the .forward file.
Conrad
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