[ale] Help with mail forwarding

Richard Bronosky Richard at Bronosky.com
Mon Jan 11 18:35:50 EST 2010


Your mention of cPanel suggests that this is managed hosting. If so,
you need to engage support to fix cPanel. I very much enjoyed cPanel
when I used it. You shouldn't need to subvert it the way you are
suggesting.

On 1/11/10, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
> On Monday 11 January 2010, Jim Lynch wrote:
>> I maintain a web site for an organization I belong to and for some
>> reason the "forwarders" section of the cpanel doesn't work very well.
>>  I have two email addresses at that site that forward just fine,
>> however when I went to add a third it won't stick.  It keeps
>> disappearing.
>
> Just curious, but which version of cPanel?
>
>> So I want to use fetchmail or getmail and bring the mail
>> down to a user on a system I control and forward it from there.  I can
>> get the mail using one of those utilities fine, but I'm looking for a
>> simple way to do the forwarding such that I don't lose the reply to
>> field and/or the originator field.  I've toyed with a perl script to
>> reconstruct the message piped via procmail but I thought I'd see if
>> there was a better way (better === simpler).
>
> KMail has a Redirect that preserves all headers. (It does add a few...) I
> have a several filters watching our main address for mail intended for my
> wife. With Redirect they show up on her machine as if from the original
> sender.
> --
> William
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>

-- 
Sent from my mobile device

.!# RichardBronosky #!.



More information about the Ale mailing list