Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sulu.cc.rochester.edu!msir From: msir@sulu.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Intermittent .forward problem Message-ID: <9012@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 20 Aug 90 21:46:00 GMT Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Reply-To: Mark Sirota Lines: 19 Sometimes, and I do mean sometimes, our sendmail seems to be ignoring .forward files, and delivering locally instead. This is happening under SunOS 4.0.3, using Sun's sendmail 4.1 (that's the version number that the $v macro gives, anyway). I've only seen it happen on one system, but that doesn't mean it's not happening elsewhere. The home directories on this system are remote-mounted by NFS. The .forward files seem to work most of the time; it's just the occasional letter than gets delivered locally. They don't seem to happen in batches; time doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, and I just basically have absolutely no idea what could be going on. Any suggestions are most welcome. -- Mark Sirota - University of Rochester Computing Center, Rochester NY Internet: msir@cc.rochester.edu Bitnet: msir@uordbv.bitnet UUCP: {decvax,harvard,ames,rutgers}!rochester!ur-cc!msir