Subject: Questions about .forward

From: Jim Clark <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 22:19:00 -0500

Hi

1.  I have setup .forward with receiving address, but mail is not forwarded.

2.  Playing around with procmail and .forward to sort messages (as
described in FAQs) also does not work.  My mail seems to disappear. 

Any obvious (or not so obvious) suggestions?  I'm on Alpha with OSF/1 
using Pine as mail program.  I believe PMDF (?) is earlier part of mail 
delivery.

Thanks
Jim

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From: Baruch David Kaufman <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Aug 1995 12:14:15 GMT

>Any obvious (or not so obvious) suggestions?  I'm on Alpha with OSF/1

Have you set your the permission of .forward to 711 using chmod?
This is necessary to allow others (including software) to access the file for 
forwarding information.

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