Email forwarding and webmail

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Bijl0130

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Dear all, I have a problem with the forwarding. My emails are forwarded in a proper way to a second account but from each forwarded email a copy is left behind automaticly in my original webmail.

As I do not use my original account for anything else except for forwarding, this is very irritating. Every now and then my hosting company sends a message that my original account is full and thus I have to go this webmail and delete all from there.

I used to work with an other system where you could simply select an option saying 'leave no copy behind when email is forwarded'.

Is that somehow possible in DirectAdm?

I find this one of the bigger problems in the whole DirectAdm system, while it should be easy to solve??
greetings
 
exactly as scsi said, just went through this the other day, all you need is a forwarder, no need to create the pop email account
 
Let's explain this in complete detail:

In DirectAdmin, all virtual email addresses are independent of each other.

Build a mailbox, all email goes there.

Build a forward, all email goes there.

Build an autoresponder, all email ges responded to.

Build a vacation notice, all email gets responded to.

Any multiples or combinations of the above means copies get delivered to all.

The only eception is the account mailbox; the one set up with the account. On that one if you set up a forward, mail does NOT end up in the mailbox.

If I had it my way, I probably wouldn't even show the account mailbox under mailboxes, or count it in the number of allowed mailboxes. Since there's now ay to not create the box (it's part of the linux/unix ecosystem), I'd create an invisiable forwarder for it so all email going to it would automatically get forward to the users' contact email address.

Two problems with my idea, though. It's way after the fact, and would be hard to implement ow, because a lot of people already uses it for other features. And ... if the user notifies you of a change in his/her contact address, you'd need to change te forwarder manually.

However those two problems don't keep me from liking it :).

Jeff
 
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