Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!cello!d75!awdprime!sandino.austin.ibm.com!jeffe From: jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Intermittent .forward problem Message-ID: <3235@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 22 Aug 90 17:48:37 GMT References: <9012@ur-cc.UUCP> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 19 In article <9012@ur-cc.UUCP> Mark Sirota writes: >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. In order for sendmail to recognize a .forward file, the file has to be owned and readable by the recipient. My guess is that the remote mount mangles the file ownership, although I can't explain why that would happen intermittently (is someone messing with passwd files or are you using yp?). Also make sure that the user's home directory as listed in the /etc/passwd that the sendmail daemon is looking at is correct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Jeffe ...uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!sandino.austin.ibm.com!jeffe first they want a disclaimer, then they make you pee in a jar, then they come for you in the night