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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