Re: frozen messages

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Niels Provos
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: frozen messages
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Niels Provos wrote:

> I might get a rtfm for this:


I do try to be helpful...

> Why wont it deliver the mail to /var/spool/mail/moebert ???


Because you are running a configuration that causes it to look for a
.forward file in the user's home directory. It does this as the user.
With the permissions set the way you have them, it cannot determine
whether a .forward file exists or not. Consequently, it cannot deliver
the mail.

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