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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail?
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:43:23 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199604231358.JAA05012@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 23, 96 09:58:33 am
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Charles Henrich writes:

> Yes but think about it, .forwards WILL NOT WORK USUALLY EVER if sendmail
> doesnt read .forward's as root!  Most home directories are 700!  This is a
> *bug* not a feature.

sarah:~ % pwd 
/var/home/imb
sarah:~ % cd ..
sarah:/var/home % ls -ld imb
drwx------  18 imb  staff  2048 Apr 21 05:35 imb
sarah:/var/home % cd 
sarah:~ % ll .forward 
-rw-rw-r--  1 imb  staff  20 Feb 16 02:56 .forward
sarah:~ % cat .forward 
\imb
imb@scgt.oz.au

 .. works just fine for me on -stable with sendmail 8.7.5 and no overrides
on where .forward files can be, i.e. default sendmail configuration,

	michael