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

\r...@sterndata.com

which is a valid, external email account

but mail sent to "sdstern" goes to "sdst...@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.


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