Pkg exim4 users - May 2009 - Forwarding

Hi,

I am having problems getting forwarding to a off-site email address 
working on a Debian system.

Help please


My .forward file is

# Exim filter
unseen deliver you at offsite.email.address
finish

My 600_exim4-config_userforward file

userforward:
  debug_print = "R: userforward for $local_part@$domain"
  driver = redirect
  domains = +local_domains
  check_local_user
  file = $home/.forward
  require_files = $local_part:$home/.forward
  no_verify
  no_expn
  check_ancestor
  allow_filter
  forbid_smtp_code = true
  directory_transport = address_directory
  file_transport = address_file
  pipe_transport = address_pipe
  reply_transport = address_reply
  skip_syntax_errors
  syntax_errors_to = real-$local_part@$domain
  syntax_errors_text = \
    This is an automatically generated message. An error has\n\


I suspect that I do not have the correct transport in my 
600_exim4-config_userforward file but do not know what to put in

Thanks

Peter

Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having problems getting forwarding to a off-site email address 
> working on a Debian system.
> Help please
> My .forward file is
> # Exim filter
> unseen deliver you at offsite.email.address
> finish
> My 600_exim4-config_userforward file
[unchanged from the one we ship]
> I suspect that I do not have the correct transport in my 
> 600_exim4-config_userforward file but do not know what to put in
Could you please tell us what the actual error is (log file entries,
error messages, etc.)? This should just work.
cu andreas
-- 
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.''
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure''

On 2009-05-25 Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk>
wrote:
>> Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I am having problems getting forwarding to a off-site email address
>>> working on a Debian system.
>>> Help please
>>> My .forward file is
>>> # Exim filter
>>> unseen deliver you at offsite.email.address
>>> finish
>>> My 600_exim4-config_userforward file
>> [unchanged from the one we ship]
>>> I suspect that I do not have the correct transport in my  
>>> 600_exim4-config_userforward file but do not know what to put in
>> Could you please tell us what the actual error is (log file entries,
>> error messages, etc.)? This should just work.
> I get nothing in the /var/log/exim4 mainlog, paniclog or rejectlog and  
> no email is even delivered to the original addressee. When I remove the  
> .forward file from the user''s home directory the email is
delivered to
> the original addressee and there are the appropriate entries in the 
> mainlog.
Please check the output of
echo blah | exim4 -d whateverthelocal at adressis 

cu andreas
-- 
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.''
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure''

Hi Andreas,

Following your advice I ran

echo blah | exim4 -d whateverthelocal at adressis
and found the following line

errno=-1 more_errno=0 bad owner for /home/tom/.forward

After I changed the owner to tom everything worked fine

Thank you for helping me find my stupid error

Peter Sparkes

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2009-05-25 Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>>> Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I am having problems getting forwarding to a off-site email
address
>>>> working on a Debian system.
>>>>         
>
>   
>>>> Help please
>>>>         
>
>   
>>>> My .forward file is
>>>>         
>
>   
>>>> # Exim filter
>>>> unseen deliver you at offsite.email.address
>>>> finish
>>>>         
>
>   
>>>> My 600_exim4-config_userforward file
>>>>         
>
>   
>>> [unchanged from the one we ship]
>>>       
>
>   
>>>> I suspect that I do not have the correct transport in my  
>>>> 600_exim4-config_userforward file but do not know what to put
in
>>>>         
>
>   
>>> Could you please tell us what the actual error is (log file
entries,
>>> error messages, etc.)? This should just work.
>>>       
>
>   
>> I get nothing in the /var/log/exim4 mainlog, paniclog or rejectlog and
>> no email is even delivered to the original addressee. When I remove the
>> .forward file from the user''s home directory the email is
delivered to
>> the original addressee and there are the appropriate entries in the 
>> mainlog.
>>     
>
> Please check the output of
> echo blah | exim4 -d whateverthelocal at adressis 
>
> cu andreas
>