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.forward file not working

hello

I am running solaris 8 and my .forward file is not working - any ideas?

thanks
jculkincys

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Nukfror

Well, a little more information would be helpful :) Like maybe what you .forward file looks like - obviously obfuscated to non-real email address. Also, have you look in the /var/adm/messages ? Depending on how your system is configured, sendmail (or whatever SMTP engine your using) may be putting messages into /var/adm/messages. This could help you figure out where your .forward may be failing.

jculkincys

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sorry for the lack of info

I think PsiCop is on the right path

Computer1 (where .forward does not work)
...
drwxr-xr-x 6 user groupa 2048 Jun 26 09:47 .
drwxrwxr-x 8 root root 512 Apr 5 11:04 ..
...

Computer2 (where .forward does work)
...
drwxr-xr-x 4 user groupb 2560 Jun 26 09:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root other 512 Apr 5 11:05 ..
...

Also there was an error on the syslog file:
Jun 22 23:59:20 hostname sendmail[num]: [ID num mail.warning] identifier: forward /e
xport/home/user/.forward.hostname+: Group writable directory

The .forward file are the same on the 2 computers

jculkincys

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