Questions tagged [mail-forwarding]
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Forward incoming mail on Linux server?
I am trying to set up mail forwarding on a new server of mine. For example, I want [email protected] to forward all email sent to it to, say, [email protected]. I do not need/want to be ...
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Procedure to forward root email to external email
I would like to forward the emails received by root to an external email on an Ubuntu node. I have seen this post, but it does not explain much about the procedure to follow. There are some other ...
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SPF hardfail and DKIM failure when recipient has e-mail forwarding
I configured hardfail SPF for my domain and DKIM message signing on my SMTP server. Since this is the only SMTP server that should be used for outgoing mail from my domain, I didn't foresee any ...
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How can I forward mail while saving a copy using postfix and mysql?
I'm migrating email from old Plesk installations to custom built Ubuntu server running iRedMail (postfix/amavisd/dovecot/etc).
I'm using postfixadmin to administrate all domains and a mysql backend. ...
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How do I set up my MX records to properly forward mail to my Gmail account?
So I have to confess that I'm not a network admin so my knowledge of DNS is very limited, and I think I've screwed something up.
I own a domain--let's call it mydomain.com. I had my hosting provider ...
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virtual_alias_domains - how to use different IP addresses when forwarding mail?
I host 2 web domains (domain1.com and domain2.com) on a CentOS 6.6 Linux server with 4 IP addresses.
Postfix 2.6.6 accepts mails to [email protected] and [email protected] and forwards them to person1@...
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Simple SMTP server for alias based forwarding
I'm looking for a SMTP server that will just be used to forward a few email addresses. Two requirements:
Easy to install and configure on Ubuntu.
Has an aliases file that is easy to automatically add ...
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SPF broken by forwarding on the recipient side : what do?
I run an SMTP server with SPF enabled, and I need to email users from a list of academic addresses. Thing is, these addresses are used to forward emails to the end user. And SPF breaks forwarding, ...
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Simple SMTP server which can redirect all mail to single address?
We're in the process of setting up a continuous-integration server (Hudson running on CentOS5), and some of our unit tests will cause email to be sent. We'd like to configure the server so that all ...
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How I (simply) Forward All Incoming Email to an External Address (ie. Gmail)?
With Google Apps no longer being free for small businesses/teams, I'm left pointing my MX records at my application server. I'd still like to receive email at a Gmail address sent to the domain ...
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Postfix forwarding to GMail address
I configured postfix to forward mail to external addresses (mostly GMail):
[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected], user2@...
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Relay email for some addresses, forward for others with Postfix
I administer a domain (let's say example.com) for a client who uses an Exchange server at an external service provider for email. So I made the MX record point to the Exchange server, let's say mail....
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Gmail blocks mails in case they are forwarded
My website sends mails to users. This has been working wonderfully for years. But since a year or so, gmail blocks mails in the following scenario: A user has the email [email protected]. ...
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Scripted forwarding for Outlook 2003
We have a staff member in sales who has gone onto a 4 day week (getting ready for retirement), so each Thursday afternoon her email needs to be forwarded to another user and each Friday afternoon it ...
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Exchange mailbox forwarding - emails fail dkim body hash
Exchange is modifying emails before forwarding them out to an external Google Apps account. I'm hoping to find a way to fix this.
Here's some more detail:
Using Exchange 2010 SP3 Version 14.3.123.4
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Can sendmail forward e-mail immediately instead of queueing?
Some of the e-mail passing through my server is forwarded to external accounts.
Unfortunately, my upstream SMTP-server is very picky about spam -- and rejects some of the legitimate messages as such. ...
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Exim4: Configure catchall on multiple domains to forward mail to external addresses
UPDATE: Thanks for responses on this but I'm going to drop exim and try Postfix.
My question is pretty similar to this one. I want to configure exim4 (on ubuntu 10.04) to forward/redirect all e-mail ...
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Dovecot/postfix: forward all current messages
What I'm try to achieve it's pretty simple, and, after googling, its hard to believe I've been unable to find a solution.
What I want is to forward all current messages (already delivered) of an user ...
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Retaining recipient address when forwarding using postfix
I'm setting up postfix to forward e-mails sent to a domain to outside e-mail addresses. i.e. when I get an e-mail at [email protected] it gets sent automatically to [email protected]. That's working ...
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postfix: Forward undeliverable mail to another server for same domain
I recently did some work for somebody, and as a side, he asked me if it was possible to have postfix forward mail from one server to another for the same domain. For example, let's say his domain is ...
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Server-side redirect does not work on auto-forwarded e-mails
I am trying to set up automatic forwarding of specific e-mails to an external address.
Scenario:
Company A (e.g. me) is responsible for a certain function at large company B.
One of the ...
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How to make sendmail respect +-notation for virtual users?
I have different forwarding needs for different domains, which all point to my mail-server:
[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
@example.com mylocalaccount
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I am using Gmail with a vanity account alias and external SMTP server (AWS SES). My first email is not being threaded
So this is a minor inconvenience but I am curious if anyone well versed in email forwarding and Gmail can help me.
I have a vanity domain I'll call [email protected]. I am using it as an alias for my ...
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What is current advice on forwarding email - particularly to gmail
I want to move from my current hosting site to a VPS. I am very comfortable with the website hosting side of things but at the moment my stumbling block is email, something which I have never had to ...
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Prevent misdirected bouncebacks from forwarding server
Note: This question is a duplicate of Avoid creating backscatter on a Postfix forwarding server, for which the only answer was "sorry, nothing you can do", but I provide more detail here, consider ...
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Prevent spam being forwarded by Postfix (while locally delivered to a Junk folder)
We have a pretty standard Postfix/Amavis setup where we use the Dovecot LDA to deliver mail locally. Amavis passed spam mail and we use Sieve to drop it in the Junk folder of the user.
The problem is ...
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Postfix won't forward email using virtual_alias_domains and virtual_alias_maps
Here is what i did:
apt-get install postfix
picked "internet mail"
added a file "virtual" and appended a list with emails and emails (see below for sample)
when changing postfix, i always updated the ...
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Is forwarding mail from my domain to my gmail account a bad idea? [closed]
I just configured my exim mail server to forward *@mydomain.com to my gmail account. But then I found some forums mentioning this is a bad idea. Google could eventually blacklist mydomain.com.
Is ...
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Avoid Mail Delivery System Bounce Forward [closed]
I have the following mail setup:
This is what happens at the numbered stages:
some spam-address (which actually does not exist) sends spam to [email protected]
the [email protected] has an auto-reply ...
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Spam mail forwarded through my server using valid user
I am getting "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" messages. The relevant mail messages are being forwarded using a valid user ([email protected]) on my server (server1.nbicharts.com). I control ...
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What should I use for a forwarding only mail server?
I have a VPS running ubuntu 11.10 for a Django app, I want to be able to handle the email for one specific domain (already have the reverse lookup setup with the ISP for that domain), all I'm doing is ...
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How to prevent your mail gateways from being blocked due to spam being sent via mail forwarding
We allow users to forward their e-mail to external addresses.
From time to time, our mail gateway appliances' anti-spam engine computes a large spam campaign targeted to our users as a false-negative....
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Can an SMTP server tell the sending MTA to send to another address?
Can e-mail forwarding be accomplished with the receiving MTA responding in some way that tells the sending MTA that it should send the e-mail to another address, or must e-mail forwarding be performed ...
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setup postfix or equiv to only forward to new address
Is there a dead easy way to set up an MTA to only redirect incoming mail
[email protected] -> [email protected]
Yes, I've tried various postfix guides but I'm lost in configuration.
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Mass-Forward Email in Exchange 2003
I've got an Exchange 2003 account that was once set to forward to an external address but got disabled at some point. That external user now wants the forwarding turned back on and everything in the ...
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Set up a forwarding mailbox in qmail?
setting up a simple mailserver to forward all messages sent to one address to gmail.
So far I have a file
/var/qmail/mailnames/myserver.com/username/.qmail with a single line:
&recepient@gmail....
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How to prevent email forwarded by exim from being seen as spam
I have recently started to look after a mail system where users can host their email with a web mail front end. One of the features provided is a function to set up forwarding.
The problem I am ...
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Exchange Online - Route email to different address depending on sender initials
So our HR department is tiny, and gets an enormous amount of email from our agency at large. They'd like us to forward email to different members of their team, based on the alphabetical order of the ...
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Can IP reputation be affected due to automatic forwarding?
I am hitting a dead wall with the support team of my email hosting provider.
The IP they assigned me was blacklisted and so sending emails to AOL.co.uk end up getting rejected. After several emails ...
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Postfix crashing on start-up. Why?
I'm using Debian 6, Postfix 2.9.6 and I want to avoid using MySQL for this, if possible. Here is the appropriate part from main.cf
virtual_alias_domains = example1.com example2.com
virtual_alias_maps ...
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Forward e-mail to multiple addresses with conditions
I need to forward e-mails to different mail accounts by different conditions. The aim is to create mail notification scheme for my company. I'd like to setup server on dedicated mail domain for it. Is ...
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Cross forwarding mail between two users in Postfix?
Say I want users A and B to receive each other's mail under Postfix. Is there a way to set this up as root? My first approach hasn't worked. Namely, under /etc/aliases, the following:
A: A, B
B: B, A
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Original sender is not correctly identified when spam is forwarded
I have a forwarding rule with Postfix that forwards all messages to my main email address.
When a spam message is sent to one of my emails, it is forwarded but the sender is shown as being the ...
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Correct SPF record to avoid softfail for emails sent from domain address using Gmail?
I have a domain address, such as [email protected], which forwards to Gmail.
Gmail is configured to 'send email as' [email protected], using example.com's SMTP server.
Emails sent from Gmail as me@example....
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Preventing out of office storms Exchange 2010, OWA and Auto Forward to a group
In my organization we have a group mailbox for a particular function. The actual function is preformed by 15 - 20 individuals on a rotating basis. The group mailbox serves as a record for all e-mail ...
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DMARC fails on forwarded mails without DKIM
I am running a mail server (postfix) on a VPS that is set up to forward all mail sent to an address in my private domain to a GMail address. SPF, SRS, DKIM, and DMARC are set up for my mail server and ...
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How to stop Postfix from forwarding SPAM without blocking local users' SPAM?
Some of my users have aliases in /etc/postfix/virtual that forward to other providers (mostly gmail). I believe that the fact that all mail is forwarded (even SPAM) is causing reputation issues for ...
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Forwarding incoming email for a single email to two Internal emails and one external email
Alright here is the scenario, and I apologize if this was posted somewhere as I could not find in other forums, I have an email address lets call [email protected].
The purpose of this email is so ...
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Email forwarding over windows and iis7
I am trying to make a mail piping sytem work and I am having trouble as I am not used to working with IIS7 over Windows.
The official documentation talks about how to do it with Cpanel and X3 skin, ...
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Forwarding email with postfix via AWS SES
I have a server with postfix MTA installed that accepts mail for my domain, hereinafter @example.com. I need to setup forwarding for certain [email protected] to other emails . e.g. @gmail.com and ...
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