.forward file seems to be ignored

[Rex Dieter]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 1/7/06, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> 
>>>I have just created a .forward file in my home directory, but actually
>>>no forwarding is done. Any clue about that?
>>
>>Typically a permissions problem: the directory or the .forward file
>>itself have wrong permissions set.
> 
> 
> The permissions are:
> 
> drwx------  103 psmith   psmith   4096 Jan  7 16:49 psmith
> -rw-rw-r--  1 psmith psmith 18 Jan  7 14:57 .forward
> 
> Are they appropriate?

Your homedir must have *at least* x for others(all?), else processes not 
owned by you (ie, mailer) can't even read your .forward file.

-- Rex