delete forwarded e-mail

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Ief

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Hi,

I created a new e-mail-adress. I set it to forward mails to my own e-mailadress. No problem with that. It works perfectly. The mails that are sent to the new adress are forwarded to my own e-mailadress.

But, when I look at the webmail for the new e-mailadress, the mails are stored there in my INBOX. I don't want that. I want that the mails are deleted from the server when the mails are forwarded.

How do I do that? Thanks for helping.

Ief
 
so dont create an email address create a forwarder
 
I created a forwarder, otherwise the mails wouldn't be forwarded.
 
In DirectAdmin forwarders and mailboxes work completely independently. If you create both, then you get both.

Simply delete the mailbox and leave the forwarder. Your mail will be forwarded but won't remain on the server.

If you want a mailbox, create a mailbox. If you want a forwarder, create a forwarder. If you want both, create both.

And don't feel bad about the misunderstanding; it took me a while to get this as well when I first started using DirectAdmin.

Jeff
 
o.k., thanks. It works fine know.

I thought it was necessary to create an e-mailbox if you want to create a forwarder...
 
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Hi Ief,

I read your answer above, and I understand that if you need a forward but not a email box, you just delete the email box. Yes, this is fine if I only want all mails forwarded to my gmail account. But I also want an email account which I can send email from (example, [email protected]). If I delete the email box, I will not have a email account to send email from [email protected]

Shane
 
Why would you need an incoming email box to send mail from any username at any domain? I can send email from anyusername, anydomain name I want, through any of my DirectAdmin servers. It's true that I have to authenticate either through POP-before-SMTP, or using password authentication. To do that you can use any email login, through any domain, you want, as long as it's on your box.

If you don't have one, create a subdomain of your main domain, but create it as a domain, not as a subdomain. Then set up a mail-user for it, and use that mail-user for POP-before-SMTP authorization (just have it check every five minutes or so, for incoming email). Since the authorization is by your IP#, you can then send mail under any other email address you want.

Jeff
 
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