RE: set up a forward

["Brian Gaynor" <briang pmccorp com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Jeff Vian
> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 9:40 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: set up a forward
> 
> You can do that one of 2 ways.
> A)   create the .forward file in the users home directory with the new
> email address in it. It is possible that ownership of the .forward is
> important.  It is certain that sendmail and/or procmail must 
> be able to
> read the .forward file, so permissions may need to be checked. 
> B)   Make an entry in the /etc/aliases file for that user, then run
> 'newaliases' for the change to take affect.
> 
> Either of those 2 ways works.  A) can be done by the user, B) must be
> done by root.  Either file can have one or many new addresses 
> to forward
> to.
> 

The plugin I have for Squirrelmail sets the permissions on .forward to 664,
works fine with postfix/procmail/dovecot.

Brian