From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2007 - 13:17:04 CDT

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:36:53PM -0000, Ward, Martin wrote:

> I have a trouble ticket system (RT) that I am trying to get Postfix to
> work with. Currently I have a user www whose home directory is filled
> with lots of .forward files in the format .forward-queue where queue is
> the name of th RT queue, however I can't get Postfix to utilise these
> files.

Delivery logs?

> My main.cf file has the following in it:
>
> recipient_delimiter = -
> forward_path =
> $home/.forward${recipient_delimiter}${extension}
> ${extension?$home/.forward-default}
> ${extension:$home/.forward}
>
> As far as I understand it this means that when an email is sent to
> www-mailtt0 Postfix should look in the home directory of the www user
> for the .forward-mail file and act on its contents.
>
> What is happening is all emails are being forwarded to roottt0 instead.
>
> If I run "sendmail -bv www-mailtt0" I get:
> Mail Delivery Status Report will be mailed to <root>.

And did you read the resulting report mailed to root? You are not
understanding the "sendmail -bv" output. The results are emailed to
the user running the command, or supplied via the "-f sender" option.

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        Viktor.

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