[ale] Help with mail forwarding

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Mon Jan 11 19:07:48 EST 2010


William Bagwell 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? 
>   

	11.24.5-STABLE

>   
>> 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.
>   
I'll give that a try.  I don't use kmail so I'll bring it up on one of 
my servers for that purpose only.

Thanks,
Jim.



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