Email Distributed To Two Internal Addresses

[Lianna]

Bringing up an old subject here, but there has to be a better way to do this:

 

I have one email address like contact@mydomain. Any mail sent to this address should be forwarded (distributed) to TWO people in my organization (owner and manager, for example).

 

Right now, I am using a Mailing List for this, but have started getting List Admin tasks when people send mail to contact@mydomain. Not good.

 

Someone give me a reasonable alternative. The Mailing List was overkill to start with and now has become a pain. I am trying to use the list for purposes other than its design, so of course. But, I have to do something.

 

I have seen and used elsewhere a Mail Group function. You create an email name and then assign as many distributive recipients to the account as you wish.

 

I am open to any suggestions at this point. Thanks.

 

Lianna

[rayners]

Okay, here is what I just tried sucessfully with my account. I added an Email Forwarder through CPanel. I set webmaster@rayners.org to be the forwarded address, and set two of my email addresses as ones to forward to, with a comma between them (e.g. email1@domain1.com,email2@domain2.org). CPanel seems to have picked up on the two addresses, and created two forwarders in the listing. So, my guess is you can also add individual email addresses to an existing forwarder just like adding a regular forwarder. Am I making any sense?

 

Anyways, I sent a test email to webmaster@rayners.org, and both of the addresses received it.

 

Enjoy!

[rayners]

Just a quick little update, I tested adding a new address individually to a forwarder that already existed, and that works too. I added another forwarder through CPanel (webmaster@rayners.org => my third email address), and then sent a test message, which I received in all three accounts.

[Lianna]

Well obviously it just had to be one little comma standing in my way!

 

Thanks so much. I will get on this immediately.

 

thanx,thanx,thanx.

 

Lianna

[rayners]

You're welcome. I'm glad I could help. I do so enjoy finding these nice little "undocumented features" in systems.

[Lianna]

It's weird that it works. When I had tried to set up a forward to one address and then setup the same name to forward to a second address, it didn't work. I got delivery failure to the second address. Thinking that was logical, because in theory, the email was forwarded to the first address which makes it nonexistent to be forwarded to the second address.

 

When doing it your way, it works great...but shows two separate forwarders in the list...just as mine had. Wonder what the difference is? Not that I really care, mind you, just a fleeting thought. As long as one way, any way, works then I'm good!

 

Lianna

[rayners]

It's weird that it works. When I had tried to set up a forward to one address and then setup the same name to forward to a second address, it didn't work. I got delivery failure to the second address. Thinking that was logical, because in theory, the email was forwarded to the first address which makes it nonexistent to be forwarded to the second address.  

 

Was the second address setup yet? Might there have been a typo in the forwarder? My guess is you got a delivery failure message because it actually did try to send the email to the second address, but there was a problem with the delivery (the address didn't exist or something like that).

[Lianna]

Thought that I had all my ducks in a row, even re-did the whole thing. Only diff between then and now, besides your comma trick, was the email address had been created so it was a pop3 that I was forwarding. This time, I did not create the email address, just forwarded it.

 

Gosh, that must make sense! Here's my approach the first time(s):

Sales@ should redir to Owner@ and Manager@

So, I created the THREE email accounts and then setup forward for:

Sales@ ==> Owner@

AND another forward for:

Sales@ ==> Manager@

 

This scenario bombs the second redir to Manager@

 

But, if I do NOT create the Sales@ Mail account, but rather only set up the redirs (addressed together with commas or separately created forwards) it works.

 

Try it out! If the email account (Sales@) exists, the multiple forwards bomb!

 

I still like your comma trick, though. Makes very handy for creating this.

 

Lianna

[Ayman_]

Look at you gurus.......

 

go guru .. go guru

[Lianna]

 

...right up to the point where we get into somewhere we're not supposed to have access to right?

 

 

Lianna