sendmail ignoring .forward?

[Steven Stern]

On 01/03/2014 11:06 AM, 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.
> 
> 

And my workaround is to add "MAILTO=root at sterndata.com" to the top of my
crontab.  The mail now goes to the right place.

-- 
-- Steve