Joe Chasan wrote:
> Recently, a client site with mmdf for whom all email is pulled in
> with fetchmail asked for something that the users could manage themselves
> via a .forward (copy of email to blackberry or other wireless device
> account on demand on their own) - since they were already using webmin,
> i added in usermin with which they can manage a .forward from a gui (they
> can not use editor or be trusted to do anything technical).
>
> the problem is that with usermin, when they check the box to keep a copy
> for original receving user, usermin puts a backslash in front of username
> in the .forward.
>
> e.g. - if joe wants his email to go to joe and joe2, using the usermin
> gui would setup a .forward with:
> \joe
> joe2
>
> i do not know if this is a bug in usermin or just something that mmdf can
> not handle, but with that backslash in the username, mmdf eats up all CPU
> cycles and processes until finally failing with fork failed - too many
> processes. take the backslash out and it is fine. i've never put a
> backslash in myself when setting up .forward with vi so i'm not sure whose
> bug it is.
>

Other folks have explained what it means. You should be able to edit usermin
to handle your needs for MMDF. But does your client need to use MMDF? I have
to admit that I've been walking through the SCO OpenServer configuration tools
for it and find them loathsome. Sendmail seems reasonably well supported, both
for SCO systems and in general.