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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail?
To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:00:46 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199604231743.DAA14481@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Apr 24, 96 03:43:23 am
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> 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,

Okay, sendmail is playing games, apparently if the file is owned by root,
sendmail will ignore it, else it does read it regardless of permissions.

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich