Re: is /.forward intended to be magic?

[Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:35:14PM -0500, Roy C. Bixler wrote:
> I've found a rather unexpected Z-mailer behaviour and wondered whether

	Oops...  Injected into the CVS - and I continue sailing :)
	( Now at: 60N05.886 19E55.602 Finland Hayfard -- at the best
	  guest harbour in Finland, if not entire Baltic Sea..)

> it's bug or feature.  Under Z-Mailer 2.99.51 or 2.99.50s19, if I have
> a /.forward file, then (regardless of whether / is anyone's home
> directory) all mail to any local unknown users will get sent according
> to the /.forward file.  I tripped over this one while customising the
> 'redirect()' function in crossbar.cf and finding out the hard way that
> the introduction of /.forward broke my redirection.  (The funny thing is,
> if I'd known about this behaviour beforehand, I might not have tried
> tinkering with 'redirect()'!)
> 
> Anyway, if this magical treatment of /.forward is a bug, then the patch
> below fixes it and once again causes mail to unknown local users to bounce.
> Er, w/o a special 'redirect()', that is. ;-)
> 
> *** ./cf.old/aliases.cf     Wed Mar 31 08:54:45 1999
> --- ./cf/aliases.cf         Tue Jul 27 12:18:17 1999
> ***************
> *** 452,458 ****
>  
>   #     only allow .forward file reading if privs allow it
>  
> !       hashomedir=0
>         if homedir="$(homedirectory "$user")" ; then
>                 hashomedir=1
>         else
> --- 452,458 ----
>  
>   #     only allow .forward file reading if privs allow it
>  
> !       hashomedir=
>         if homedir="$(homedirectory "$user")" ; then
>                 hashomedir=1
>         else
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roy Bixler
> The University of Chicago Press
> rcb@press-gopher.uchicago.edu