E-mail Forwarding

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I'm having some trouble understanding the e-mail forwarding.

If I create a forwarder on the main e-mail account for a domain, the forwarder does how I expect -- the e-mail goes to the forwarded e-mail address and bypasses the POP mail box on the server, but if I do this for any other e-mail account then the e-mail goes both to the account on the server and also gets forwarded.

Test steps:

(1) Create a domain with main account

[email protected]

create forwarder

[email protected] => [email protected]

all mail gets forwarded to [email protected]

(2) Create second POP mail box

[email protected]

create forwarder

[email protected] => [email protected]

mail goes to both [email protected] and [email protected]
 
Odd -- I would expect forwarding to behave the same way in both instances.

Instance #1 is more intuitive to me since the alias file works that way and that is how forwarding works with postal mail. You forward from one address to another, but don't retain copies at each address.

It is an easy work around for my setup. I'll use numbered accounts as the actual POP accounts and the users name for the forwarder.

Thanks for the help. It is always appreciated!

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I'm not sure what you mean by "numbered accounts".

The reason it works that way is because only "user" accounts are real linux accounts and behave the way linux accounts are expected to behave.

Other email accounts are virtual accounts and work any way the programmer wants them to work.

If I recall correctly, DA implemented it this way because people wanted to be able to do both; this way you set up a forward if you just want a forward, an email account if you just want an email account, and both if you want both.

Plesk works the same way; it gives more flexibility.

Jeff
 
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I have a specific question about what was discussed in this thread.


I wish to have my email to be forwarded and kept in the local mailbox, how would I go about doing this?

The account I wish to do this on, is an actuall user account.


I want to be able to forward one copy to my blackberry, and retain a local copy for when I get home.

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So what I want to do is use virtual accounts for those I wish to keep a copy of, and forward?



This is where I run into a dilema, fstewart at tnconsultants dot com is the address I wish to both forward and keep. However, fstewart happens to be the user account as well.

Is my only option to delete user fstewart and give it another name, and create fstewart at tnconsultants dot com as a virtual account?
 
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One easy solution is to create a virtual account and forward all of the actual account mail to that virtual account. If it behaves as I expect the mail will do as follows:

Internet => [email protected] => [email protected] => [email protected]

The mail should be retained at [email protected].

How you configure your mail client determines how people see your return address. So simply keep that informatiion the same and it will apear to recipiants that you are picking up your mail at the [email protected] account.

There was some confusion above about "numbered accounts" the "numbered accounts" were the virtual accounts that my customers would fetch their mail from.

In other words, the name of the account that you use to pick up your mail is transparent to the recipiant.
 
I created a virtual account, set that to forward to my blackberry.

But the mail doesn't retain in the virtual account :confused:


Maybe I'm misunderstanding this.
 
Now it does, weird.

It didn't retain my test message, but now it's retaining the rest.

So apparently all is good, thanks for the help.
 
Is it not possible to make in an future da version an option (leave copy on server)?

Under this option a copy off the message will be forwarder
without this option the message without leaving a message in the origional pop?


Richard
 
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