Not forwarding

[ereyes]

I'm currently running sendmail 8.13.1 on RHEL 4 AS.

When a user is going to be out for long time, usually set a .forward file on his home directory so his mail is automatically forwarded to another mailbox.

That used to work perfectly on UnixWare but not on our recently installed Linux system.

Any suggestion?

Thnaks

 

[mrballcb]

Make sure the user owns the .forward file (not root:root) and turn off group and world write bits for that file.

Make sure that sendmail.cf is searching where you think it should:

smtp1 mail # grep Forward sendmail.cf.smtp
# Forward file search path
O ForwardPath=$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward

In this example, it will look in the user's home directory ($z) for two files, the second of which is $HOME/.forward, which is the one you're seemingly trying to use. Make sure that the directory you're using matches the home directory shown in 'getent passwd USERNAME'.

If those two don't fix it, I'm not sure what could be the problem.

 

[rejohn]

How do I configure sendmail on a smtp server running linux just for outgoing mail only?