Forward GMail

Snake86

Snake86

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Hey all, I have set that an e-mail adress must forward to my GMail adres. That works, but when I'm trying to send an e-mail from a GMail account, it just doesn't forward it:confused:.

Can sombody please help me:), Thanks...

And I think the server time is wrong, it stands almost 10 minutes later than here:eek:.
 
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You're a bit confusing.

What do you mean? When you send an email to your local address does it get forwarded to GMAIL? If not, does it end up in any local mailbox?

What other function are you looking for that doesn't work?

If your server time is off you'll have to contact your webhosting company as only they can change it.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
You're a bit confusing.

What do you mean? When you send an email to your local address does it get forwarded to GMAIL? If not, does it end up in any local mailbox?

What other function are you looking for that doesn't work?

If your server time is off you'll have to contact your webhosting company as only they can change it.

Jeff
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Sorry for the confusing part, i'm Dutch and I don't know how I can discribe it well.

The e-mail adress: [email protected] is forwareded to [email protected].

But when I'm sending an e-mail from any GMail account to [email protected] I don't get any new messages, if I'll send an e-mail from Hotmail or any other e-mail client to that adress the e-mail get forward and it workes perfectly.

But why aren't the e-mails from GMail not forwarded? And I don't get an e-mail back that the sending has be wrong or something...

And about the time, I mean the time here on the forum:rolleyes:.
 
Snake86,

There are lot of Dutch-speaking folk on these forums, including my partner Onno.

The only way you're going to know anything about email from gmail.com reaching you is by searching your logs, perhaps in realtime, using tail -f /var/log/exim/mainlog as you send the email from gmail.

Do you have your domain configured to use SpamBlocker? If so, then gmail could be blocked because it occasionally gets into blocklists. We recommend putting gmail.com into /etc/virtual/whitelist-domains.

Yes, the DirectAdmin server time is off. I presume we have to live with that :) .

Jeff
 
azet,

Yes, and you can also simply send email from any return address at gmail.com, to any other address, through your server, without a telnet login.

Alternatives are to either list all gmail senders in /etc/virtual/whitelist-senders, or to list all the gmail outgoing servers in /etc/virtual/whitelist-hosts, or to remove the blocklists (from your exim.conf file) that list gmail.

Of those we now recommend listing all the gmail servers.

Jeff
 
I think I can't get in that folders, or there hidden the folders, the server is not my own. I have Gmail (*@gmail.com) also added to the white list, but still no results:(. I've also contacted the server administator, he have tried it on the same server and it worked fine, only by me it doesn't... Is there any possibility to look at the logs with Direct Admin or something...

Thanks, Snake
 
If it's not your server you really need to take it up with your server administrator, as they're the only ones that can follow the suggestions we post here.

The best bet is as I posted above, in /etc/virtual/whitelist-hosts, and to have your domain listed in /etc/virtual/use_rbl_domains.

But you can't do this yourself.

Jeff
 
Sorry to resurrect this, but I seem to be having the same problem.

This works:
[email protected] forwards to [email protected] (where domain1 and domain2 are mine)

This doesn't work
[email protected] forwards to [email protected]

Have added gmail.com to /etc/virtual/whitelist_hosts (the file was empty, I added it just like that with no ; or anything)
Have added domain1.com to /etc/virtual/use_rbl_domains (also was empty)
Restarted exim.

Problem not fixed.

Checked /var/log/exim log, no errors, no rejections.
The test emails were received at [email protected], just not forwarded with the target was gmail. They were not in gmail's spam folder either.
 
Neither of the changes made to files in /etc/virtual will help. The change to whitelist_hosts will allow anyone using server name gmail.com to relay mail (spam) through your server. Probably not a problem since there's probably no email coming from a hostname gmail.com.

The change to use_rbl_domains will imlement the use of the whitelists and the blocklists for the domain (it's likely not implemented for any of the others).

But neither has anything to do with forwarding.

You should watch your log while sending email to the local address to see if the forward is even attempted, and if so, what error you get.

Jeff
 
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