Forwarders

[_Chris_]

Trying to setup a few forwarders, so that for example, all emails for joseph@domain.com goes to joe@domain.com - ie, if I already have the email account joe@domain.com - do I have to keep setting up email accounts for every email address that the emails are forwarding from please ? ?

Any help appreciated.

Chris.

[DavidAllen]

You could set it up as the catch-all address - then all emails addresses that you haven't set up will get forewarded to it

[jc8654]

I would suggest not setting up catch- all as it can be a major problem spam wise. I would set up forwarders from the secondary email addresses to go to the main one you are using.

[eUKhost.com]

JC is right. never consider catch-all as your emails will get screwed and one day you will see your email service suspended as spammers bombard catchall email accounts with thousands of error / failed messages.

[jc8654]

Good to know I do know what I'm talking about sometimes! Lol.

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by jc8654

Good to know I do know what I'm talking about sometimes! Lol.

I think this was for the first time

[jc8654]

If you're not careful Mark, I'll be starting a thread going "People who jc8654 has helped solve their hosting issues". And I can guarentee there will be plenty of reples!

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by jc8654

If you're not careful Mark, I'll be starting a thread going "People who jc8654 has helped solve their hosting issues". And I can guarentee there will be plenty of reples!

We can add a new forum "JC Testimonials" and see how many threads we get over there

[jc8654]

I think it would be a good amount! I must be doing something right otherwise people would be complaining about my 1000+ posts!

[_Chris_]

Combining threads from here :

Thanks jc and Mark, just to be clear :

There won't be any catch-alls

Assume you already have a one and only email account in the name of joe@domain.com

If you want to setup a forwarder so that any emails sent to joseph@domain.com would automagically get sent to Joe@domain.com - would you have to setup an email address account in the name of joesph@domain.com first ? ?

Any help appreciated.

Chris.

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by _Chris_

Combining threads from here :

Thanks jc and Mark, just to be clear :

There won't be any catch-alls

Assume you already have a one and only email account in the name of joe@domain.com

If you want to setup a forwarder so that any emails sent to joseph@domain.com would automagically get sent to Joe@domain.com - would you have to setup an email address account in the name of joesph@domain.com first ? ?

Any help appreciated.

Chris.

There's no need to setup mailbox for joesph@domain.com if you don't want copy of emails to be sent to joesph@domain.com. Forwarder will take care of forwarding all emails to Joe@domain.com, no matter if you make any mailbox or not.

[_Chris_]

Many thanks Mark, that's waht I thought you said in a previous thread, but every time I try it, I get the message :

Fatal! Write Failure: /etc/valiases/domainname.com. Ignore any messages of success this can only result in failure!
All email sent to joseph@domainname.com will now be copied to joe@domainname.com

(Ignore the last line above - it doesn't work as mentioned)

Just wondering, what happens when some of the members here try to setup a forwarder please ? Do you also get the write failure message above ? ?

Also, just to confirm, I don't want any emails to be copied over, I need them to be moved to the other emails address.

Any help appreciated.

Chris.

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by _Chris_

Many thanks Mark, that's waht I thought you said in a previous thread, but every time I try it, I get the message :

Fatal! Write Failure: /etc/valiases/domainname.com. Ignore any messages of success this can only result in failure!
All email sent to joseph@domainname.com will now be copied to joe@domainname.com

(Ignore the last line above - it doesn't work as mentioned)

Just wondering, what happens when some of the members here try to setup a forwarder please ? Do you also get the write failure message above ? ?

Also, just to confirm, I don't want any emails to be copied over, I need them to be moved to the other emails address.

Any help appreciated.

Chris.

Hi Chris,

There's some problem with permission of /etc/valiases/domainname.com. Please let me know the domain name in question and I will get this sorted for you. You can PM your domain name to me.

[_Chris_]

Many thanks Mark, will probably do that - do you know what the permissions should be please?

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by _Chris_

Many thanks Mark, will probably do that - do you know what the permissions should be please?

do you have a VPS / Dedicated Server ?

You won't manage to change permissions if your domain is hosted on a shared hosting server.