Sendmail not forwarding under F12

[Geoffrey Leach]

With the installation of F12, Sendmail is no longer honoring 
my .forward -- nothing has changed (except the permissions, I've been 
hacking). Mail is delivered to /var/mail/geoff

/var/log/maillog 
Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3272]: nAUMY4Fn003272: to=geoff, 
ctladdr=geoff (500/500), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=relay, 
pri=30207, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent 
(nAUMY4tR003273 Message accepted for delivery)
Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273: forward /home/
geoff/.forward.mtranch: Permission denied
Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273: forward /home/
geoff/.forward: Permission denied
Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273: 
to=<geoff at mtranch.mtranch.com>, ctladdr=<geoff at mtranch.mtranch.com> 
(500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30706, 
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileinunsafedirpath, 
forwardfileinunsafedirpathsafe


geoff at mtranch[4]->ll ~/.forward
-r--------. 1 geoff geoff 33 2009-11-30 10:36 /home/geoff/.forward

Any suggestions?