https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63702

--- Comment #8 from Tim Landscheidt <t...@tim-landscheidt.de> ---
(In reply to DrTrigon from comment #7)
> [...]

> The strange thing now is why it was NOT deliverd to the mail address
> specified in '~/.forward'? And also not bunced with an error message? But
> instead was not able to be delivered and ended up being delayed? The same
> for drtrigonbot.maintain...@tools.wmflabs.org mentioned in comment 1.

The same thing (mail being stuck in the queue) happened previously when
~/.forward had wrong permissions and is thus apparently a design choice by the
Exim developers.  It makes some sense because otherwise mail to a user with an
improper ~/.forward would be misrouted to for example local storage with no
indication to the user about that, while the "we'll keep trying" approach shows
up at least in the mail queue and thus potentially in the admins' eyes.

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