Multiple forwarders

[LawsHosting]

Ok, say, you have mail going to the username email with a forwarder to another email address, then that has a forwarder to an external email. Will this work?

A client has this scenario, however, we noticed the second email had ~350mb of mail (space warning).

As it's being forwarded (as far as we know), shouldn't it not be stored on the server?

 

[LawsHosting]

No-one knows? Should I just state that a forwarder is an one-time thing? eg. need to use just one forwarder to one email address

 

[Richard G]

Theoretically I would say your assumption in your first post would be correct, but it seems not to work that way.
This could be due to the presence of the forward flag and the second email address is already a destination email address (I suppose, but this is my theoretical thought).
In any case the mail is still kept on the second server, as your client is experiencing. I read the same thing on Cpanel forums.

Question is.... on which system is the second email running? Is that DA or Cpanel or someting else?
Because in an older post on Cpanel it says that if you don't want to have your mail piled up on a forwarder, you have to delete the original email and only keep the forwarder.

So imho your client has two possibility's.
1.) Forward directly to email 3. If he knows that, I'm not sure why hes even forwarding to email 2.
or
2.) On server 2 delete the second email address, so he only has to have a forwarder present there.

Edit: I had a further look and found several answers to the same question, like this:

The trick is to just to NOT create a POP3 account for that e-mail address. Simplly create the Forwarder with the e-mail address that you want in the E-mail control panel, and that creates a "forward-only" account that doesn't have a POP box, but is a valid address for your domain.

 

[LawsHosting]

Question is.... on which system is the second email running? Is that DA or Cpanel or someting else?

They were using user account email (DA) > a 2nd pop account (same box) > an aol email... So, both mailboxes were on the same box.

Maybe the exim.pl only checks one email address per forwarder and that's it - I know you can forward to multiple addresses when you use a comma to seperate them, this maybe is how the exim.pl checks the forwarders.

I do not know why this particular client used a forwarder onto another forwarder.

 

[nobaloney]

I've read the thread twice and perhaps I should be reading it three times .

But if I'm reading it right, then I know that this works:

[email protected]> [email protected] -> [email protected]

No matter where the other forwarders are set up.

Don't forget that for virtual email accounts, if you have both a forwarder and a mailbox, copies of the email are delivered to both.

What else am I missing?

Jeff

 

[LawsHosting]

As I said in #2, if I state to my clients if they want all mail to be forwarded to an external address, just set up a forwarder from their username, then it will not be saved on the box too? (I assume the need for a forwarder, is for them just to check their ISP's mail)

If so, if there's no Catch-All set, I gather this will still work? They'd need to set up multiple forwarders, if, say, they get mail to info@ (non-existant), then they need to setup a forwarder for that, correct?

Sadly, some people aren't that clued up to be able to do this believe it or not.

 

[Richard G]

This should be possible, however, like I also stated, if they have both an existing email and a forwarder for the same address on server 2, that will be the reason the mail copies will be piled up there.

 

[nobaloney]

To clarify, and hopefully, to cap the conversation:

For domain email addresses added at the domain level, A mailbox will collect email, a forwarder will forward email. If you want mail only to be forwarded, but not saved on the server, only set up the forwarder. If you want email only to be saved on the server, but not forwarded, only set up the mailbox. If you want both, set up neither.

If you want email to be refused, don't set it up.

I and others recommend not using the Catchall, because it allows a lot of dictionary spam (Google it) into your catchall account. But if you do use it, it works just like any other forwarder, for any email address at the domain which isn't already otherwise handled.

Note you can have multiple levels of forwards; for example you can have sales@, info@, and jobs@, all forwarded to something like offbox@, and then have offbox@ forward to example@hotmail, so if you ever switch to example@gmail, you can just change the one forwarder for offbox@ instead of needing to change all three.

Jeff