How To Delete Forwarded E-mail?

[john2411]

I have several e-mail forwarders set up on my domain. The problem I am having is that e-mails remain on the account to which they were originally sent even after a copy has been forwarded.

 

I would prefer that messages be deleted once they have been forwarded. The reason is that this would allow me to just use certain addresses as pass-throughs to a main account without having to go in and clean out the various pass-through accounts' in-boxes all the time. Any advice as to how I should proceed?

 

Thanks,

John

[TCH-Bruce]

You don't need to create an email account to create a forward. If you are not using the pass through accounts for anything other than forwards to you regular email account delete them. The forwards will still work.

 

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[TCH-Don]

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[TCH-Rob]

Welcome to the forums John Thumbs Up

[john2411]

Thanks for the reply and for the words of welcome. The thing is, I actually need to maintain those accounts, as I need to send e-mail from a specific address in order to post to certain discussion forums (e.g. Yahoo Groups), and I obviously don't want to use my primary address for spam-prevention reasons.

 

Can you suggest any other solutions?

 

Thanks,

John

[TCH-Don]

I do that in my e-mail client (outlook express)

by using a copy of my ISP e-mail account and changing the e-mail address to what I need at my site.

I export the ISP account to save it,

modify it with the new address

and discription like

send as me@my site from ISP

 

then I import the backup of the ISP account

and make it the default to send from.

 

When I need to send as ME,

I just select it in the drop down menu at the top of the new e-mail where it says From:

 

So I do not need the actual accounts on my site.

 

Not all ISP's will allow this , but try it.

[john2411]

I'm not sure that the solution you describe would work for me, as I manage my e-mail mainly through accounts on my TCH-hosted domain and not through my ISP. So, I think that the question of what is allowable would relate TCH's policies rather than those of my ISP.

 

How about if I set up an account on my Outlook client to send as forumpost@**** (although that account does not exist on my TCH-hosted domain), and I authenticate as me@**** using the "My outgoing server requires authentication" option. Will the TCH mailservers accept e-mails sent that way?

 

Thanks,

John

[TCH-Don]

Ok John ,sorry to take so long, got side tracked.

I just tried what you said and it works fine.

Under My outgoing server requires authentication" option.

be sure to select advanced options and use same as incoming mail server.