Re: .forward, /etc/aliases

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 12:32 PM 10/7/99 -0400, Russell W. Behne wrote:
>Today, Meghan Madel thusly expounded:
>> Hello,
>> 	I have set up e-mail to be forwarded to some staff members home
>> addresses.  I have created a .forward file with the forwarding address
and put
>> them in the /etc/aliases.  This does not seem to be working.  The
handful of
>> staff members it doesn't work for assures me that they have given the
correct
>> forwarding e-mail.  I know that in Linux there are often other or better
ways
>> or doing things.  Any suggestions here?  
>
>Ah, it's that little blue smrsh again! That's a little sendmail security
>feature that limits sendmail's scope of program execution to only those
>programs specified in smrsh's configuration
>
>Read the sendmail docs:  file:///usr/doc/sendmail/README.smrsh
>All the info is there.

Maybe I completely misunderstand but I think Meghan wants to put a .forward
file in the users's home directory and then all mail will be sent to the
address listed in the file.  Right?  I don't think you need to modify
/etc/aliases.  If you did edit aliases (maybe you don't want users to have
home directories?), did you run newaliases to make the changes active?

And if all else fails, in what way are things not working?  Are emails
being misdirected?  Do they show up in the normal Linux spool instead of
being forwarded?  Do the disappear?  And I would join the mailhelp group
over at www.moongroup.com and post mail-related questions there.

-Alan
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