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Forward mail for unknown users
- Thread starter b4mule
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Have you tried your aliase file if it is a one user thing:
Joe wants his mail forwarded to his new company:
/etc/aliases
joe: joe@newcompany.com
or you want to forward all mail within a queue to a certain new email box that may or maynot be on your server:
formail (check the man pages....lots of options here)
Joe wants his mail forwarded to his new company:
/etc/aliases
joe: joe@newcompany.com
or you want to forward all mail within a queue to a certain new email box that may or maynot be on your server:
formail (check the man pages....lots of options here)
Hi there,
The way I do this is to get fetchmail to deliver using the these options in .fetchmailrc:
set postmaster "admin@otherbox.mydomain.com"
with envelope "x-delivered-to"
localdomains mydomain.com
user USERNAME, with password PASSWORD, to * here
This will deliver mail to an account of the same name i.e. mail received for joe@mydomain.com will be delivered to local mailbox for user joe.
create sendmail aliases to handle unfriendly names, or mail that want to be trapped. i.e.
Tech: joe
support: dave
Any other mail to *@mydomain.com where an account, or an alias does not exist, will be sent by default to the account you specify as postmaster in .fetchmailrc.
admin@othermachine.mydomin.com
Hey presto! Mail for unknown user is sent to another machine.
Regards,
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The way I do this is to get fetchmail to deliver using the these options in .fetchmailrc:
set postmaster "admin@otherbox.mydomain.com"
with envelope "x-delivered-to"
localdomains mydomain.com
user USERNAME, with password PASSWORD, to * here
This will deliver mail to an account of the same name i.e. mail received for joe@mydomain.com will be delivered to local mailbox for user joe.
create sendmail aliases to handle unfriendly names, or mail that want to be trapped. i.e.
Tech: joe
support: dave
Any other mail to *@mydomain.com where an account, or an alias does not exist, will be sent by default to the account you specify as postmaster in .fetchmailrc.
admin@othermachine.mydomin.com
Hey presto! Mail for unknown user is sent to another machine.
Regards,
JayBot
"Always know what you say, but don't always say what you know!"- Status
