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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail?
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 23:15:34 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199604221646.MAA10587@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 22, 96 12:46:09 pm
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> >     for several reasons.  it needs to read people's .forward file
> >     regardless of the permissions.  it needs to append to people's
> >     mailboxes.  it needs to bind port 25.   any others?
> >
> >     -r-sr-sr-x  3 root  kmem  245760 Mar 10 18:25 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> 
> Those are the permissions on my sendmail.  It just doesnt work!  This is on a
> 2.1R system.
> 
> ----
>     -r-sr-sr-x  3 root  kmem  180224 Nov 16 04:59 /usr/sbin/sendmail*
> 
> # ls -ld /root
> 2 drwx------  8 root  wheel  512 Apr 21 23:16 /root/
> 
> # more /root/.forward
> henrich
> ----
> 
> If I send mail to root@mymachine, it goes to /var/mail/root, instead of being
> forwarded.  root's homedir is /root...  This makes no sense!
> 
> -Crh
> 
>        Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

What does your sendmail.cf look like for:

# Forward file search path
#OJ/var/forward/$u:$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward

Mine was like this: commented out. I also think sendmail can be compiled
to not do .forwards (for security reasons).

Wilko
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