[sork] Problem about file .forward

[Lars Hecking]

Matteo writes:
> > What are the contents of the ,forward file in question, and the permissions/
>  > ownership?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> if I do in /home/matteo@oldamerika.com this command # ll -a   .......   my list is so:
> 
> etc etc etc
> -rw-r--r matteo@oldamerika.com matteo@oldamerika.com  .forward
> etc etc etc
> 
> is it right ??
 
 You mean both user and group name is matteo@oldamerika.com? I don't think
 this can even work. I can't back this up with hard information, but I'm
 pretty sure that user and group names must not contain "@" and ".".

 You would use matteo as a user name, and users as group. If your policy
 is to have groups on a per-user basis, the group name could be matteo, too.