sendmail ignoring .forward?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/03/2014 12:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> 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.

Oh, it was with Centos 6.4 that I encountered .forward no longer 
working.  Not Fedora.