Re: [Exim] Problems with exim forward

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Auteur: Dave C.
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Aan: Trevor Linton
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Problems with exim forward

Does this director come before or after the localuser director? If it
comes after, then it will never get processed.


On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Trevor Linton wrote:

> I'm having some difficulties getting .forward files functioning
> correctly on exim.
>
> Problem is regardless of the user exim ignores the .forward file in
> anyones home dir.
>
> Heres a snippit of my configuration for exim:
>
> user_forward:
> driver = forwardfile
> no_verify
> check_ancestor
> file = .forward
>
>
> Exim has access to /home the users home directory and the .forward file
> for reading, there are no parse errors in the configuration file that I
> can see. The main.log and panic.log and reject.log say absolutely
> nothing about the email message when I try and send a test message. I'm
> very frustriated with it, hopefully someone can shed some light on
> this. As far as I can see exim just is treating every message that goes
> through as a normal message, even if I have a .forward in the home dir
> it's simply ignoring it. I've even gone as far as double checking that
> the directories in /etc/passwd for the home dir are correct.
>
> -- Trevor Linton (trevor@???)
>
>
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