Timothy J Luoma <luomat(_at_)nerc(_dot_)com> writes:
...
Just a thought, perhaps you changed to a newer version of sendmail
at the same time?
what are the permissions of the .forward and the parent dir?
Sendmail doesn't like the .forward being writeable by others, or in
a dir writeable by others
Herman and I tracked it down to missing mailer flags. Version 6 and
later config files (first introduced in Sendmail V8.7) use flags to
control some features that were previously triggered off of the mailer
being "local". Two of these are aliasing and .forward files.
Moral: if you're going to upgrade to sendmail V8, bit the bullet and
use the m4 config file generator system. To do otherwise is to court
pain with every new revision.
Philip Guenther