New System Help Needed With Errors

This is the error I am getting ..  Can anyone know 

<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: Command died with status 100:
"/usr/bin/ask.py-loglevel=5
*	logfile=/home/john/.ask/ --home=/home/john". Command output:
Attention:
		The system could not deliver your message due to a technical
problem.
		Information about the problem has been recorded locally for
analysis.  ---
    Problem Details ---  Traceback (most recent call last):   File
    "/usr/bin/ask.py", line 66, in ?     log    =
asklog.AskLog(config.logfile)
    File "/usr/bin/asklog.py", line 53, in __init__     self.logfh   =
	open(outfile, "a") IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory:
'/home/john/.ask/'


I do have a .ask dir that is 777 trying to find the problem it is the file
.forward that the error is coming from here is my .forward file:

Here is the ASK-FATAL-ERROR log:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ask.py", line 66, in ?
    log    = asklog.AskLog(config.logfile)
  File "/usr/bin/asklog.py", line 53, in __init__
    self.logfh   = open(outfile, "a")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/john/.ask/ask.log'


The .forward file:

"|/usr/bin/ask.py --loglevel=5 --logfile=/home/john/.ask/ --home=/home/john"


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