sendmail ignoring .forward?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/03/2014 12:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going into
> space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory.
>
> /home/sdstern/.forward contains
>
> \root at sterndata.com
>
> which is a valid, external email account
>
> but mail sent to "sdstern" goes to "sdstern at sterndata.com", which is
> another valid external email account.  I found all my missing cron mail
> there.
>
> $ ll .forward
> -rw-------. 1 sdstern sdstern 21 Jan  3 10:51 .forward
>
> Apparently, this has been going on since December 13.

Somewhere I encountered that .forward was deprecated even back in f17, 
and I had to stop using it and rely on editing /etc/aliases and running 
newaliases.