[Exim] .forward file

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Author: John Byrne, ICT Technician
Date:  
To: Exim Users Mailing List
Subject: [Exim] .forward file
I was advised that putting an email address into a .forward file in the home
directory of a user, would forward email to that user. Can anyone tell me
why this is not working for me?

Cheers,

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mail Delivery System" <Mailer-Daemon@???>
To: <tech@???>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 6:02 PM
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender


> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
>
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>   xxxx@???
>     bad owner for /home/xxxx/.forward: retry timeout exceeded

>
> ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
>
> Return-path: <tech@???>
> Received: from (ICTTech) [10.0.1.27]
> by www.kennedy.edu.hk with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian))
> id 17HyI6-0005WK-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:55:22 +0800
> Message-ID: <001801c211bc$5c9cd0e0$1b01000a@???>
> Reply-To: "John Byrne, ICT Technician" <tech@???>
> From: "John Byrne, ICT Technician" <tech@???>