Sendmail not forwarding under F12

[Sam Sharpe]

2009/11/30 Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>:
> With the installation of F12, Sendmail is no longer honoring
> my .forward -- nothing has changed (except the permissions, I've been
> hacking). Mail is delivered to /var/mail/geoff
>
> /var/log/maillog
> Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3272]: nAUMY4Fn003272: to=geoff,
> ctladdr=geoff (500/500), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=relay,
> pri=30207, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> (nAUMY4tR003273 Message accepted for delivery)
> Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273: forward /home/
> geoff/.forward.mtranch: Permission denied
> Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273: forward /home/
> geoff/.forward: Permission denied
> Nov 30 14:34:07 mtranch sendmail[3278]: nAUMY4tR003273:
> to=<geoff at mtranch.mtranch.com>, ctladdr=<geoff at mtranch.mtranch.com>
> (500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30706,
> dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileinunsafedirpath,
> forwardfileinunsafedirpathsafe
>
>
> geoff at mtranch[4]->ll ~/.forward
> -r--------. 1 geoff geoff 33 2009-11-30 10:36 /home/geoff/.forward
>
> Any suggestions?

1) Assuming this worked before when the permissions were like that,
check for SELinux messages in /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure

2) Change the permissions - I think the sendmail user might prefer
read permissions on that file and the directories above it, as I'm not
sure it runs as the user (I don't play with sendmail much these days).

--
Sam