Hi,

We've recently moved a number of our users from IRIX to Linux. The mail- server running on IRIX was using procmail and new one runs maildrop (the server is courier). Since the move the users that were formerly on IRIX unable to forward their mail using their existing .forward file.

Here's an example of a file that is not working

=== @ms-exch.example.com:John.Doe@example.com ===

where ms-exch is virtual MX that maps to one of three servers...

As you can see the user is attempting to forward mail to their account on an exchange server. This was working when the user was on IRIX, but now it has stopped, so there were no errors in the .forward file.

I've searched the web along with this mailing list and haven't found a similar issue. Hope you guys can help.

Here's a log entry from when I sent a test-email to a user that has one of these .forward files:

=== Nov 17 16:07:02 imap2 postfix/local[22728]: 034E54B561: to=<do...@mail.example.com>, orig_to=<John...@example.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/maildrop) Nov 17 16:07:02 imap2 postfix/qmgr[5139]: 034E54B561: removed ===

One final note is that our installation of courier-mta has been running for a couple of years and this group of users is unique in their requirement for such forwarding because they use blackberries!

thank you, Khosrow