Subject: .forward not working on RHL 8?

From: "Rafael Mahecha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:36:27 -0600

Happy new years, to all.
once up on a time (up to rhl 7.3), it used to be that to forward your emails to another email address all you needed to do was to create ".forward" file containing the final address for emails...

I upgraded/installed rhl 8, and now, the .forwarding doesn't work!!!

is this a pine thing? rhl? i checked the sendmail.cf and there is a line for .forward that is uncommented, so that it can be seen by daemons...

how to get pine to .forward emails when running rhl 8?

Thanks.

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From: Mats Dufberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:17:00 +0100 (CET)

On Jan 2, 2003, 11:36 (-0600) Rafael Mahecha <[email-masked]> wrote:

> once up on a time (up to rhl 7.3), it used to be that to forward your
> emails to another email address all you needed to do was to create
> ".forward" file containing the final address for emails...
>

Well, I don't know what rhl is, but .forward is something for sendmail.

> how to get pine to .forward emails when running rhl 8?

The purpose of .forward is to do something with the mail before it ends up
in the spool file (inbox). When you start pine it's too late. Pine will
never read .forward.

Your question should be sent to a sendmail list, or list relevant for your
MTA of your server, but let me give you some suggestions.

You can test adress with the following command,

$ sendmail -v -bv USER

Sendmail will refuse to consider a .forward with write access for anyone
but the user. Set permission 644. The .forward file must be owned by the
user itself or by root.

Mats

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From: "Rafael Mahecha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:41:23 -0600

that did it!
Thanks a bunch.
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From: "Rafael Mahecha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:45:44 -0600

PS: rhl = Red Hat Linux (oops...)

1400 J. R. Lynch Street
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