[Pkg-exim4-users] Forwarding

[Peter Sparkes]

Hi Andreas,

Following your advice I ran

echo blah | exim4 -d whateverthelocal at adressis
and found the following line

errno=-1 more_errno=0 bad owner for /home/tom/.forward

After I changed the owner to tom everything worked fine

Thank you for helping me find my stupid error

Peter Sparkes

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2009-05-25 Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I am having problems getting forwarding to a off-site email address  
>>>> working on a Debian system.
>>>>         
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>>>> Help please
>>>>         
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>>>> My .forward file is
>>>>         
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>>>> # Exim filter
>>>> unseen deliver you at offsite.email.address
>>>> finish
>>>>         
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>>>> My 600_exim4-config_userforward file
>>>>         
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>>> [unchanged from the one we ship]
>>>       
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>>>> I suspect that I do not have the correct transport in my  
>>>> 600_exim4-config_userforward file but do not know what to put in
>>>>         
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>>> Could you please tell us what the actual error is (log file entries,
>>> error messages, etc.)? This should just work.
>>>       
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>   
>> I get nothing in the /var/log/exim4 mainlog, paniclog or rejectlog and  
>> no email is even delivered to the original addressee. When I remove the  
>> .forward file from the user's home directory the email is delivered to  
>> the original addressee and there are the appropriate entries in the 
>> mainlog.
>>     
>
> Please check the output of
> echo blah | exim4 -d whateverthelocal at adressis 
>
> cu andreas
>