Email Paging

[cajunman4life]

Alright, well I'm not sure where to file this one, so I'll trust the Mods to do that for me .

 

Anyways, is there a way that I can set up a mailbox to forward all mail sent to it to another address, but still retain a copy in the original mailbox? Say for example, I have a mailbox that I want all emails sent to it (or maybe just ones with certain subjects) forwarded to my cell phone, but I also want the original to remain in the mailbox. Does anyone know of anything out there that can do just that? Man I tell you what, I really need to sit down and learn php... lol. Thanks guys!

[MikeJ]

Actually, you can do this in cPanel.

 

If you setup a mailbox *and* a forwarder, the email will go to both.

[cajunman4life]

Ok Mike, I've got the forwarder set up. I'm going to run a test soon.

[cajunman4life]

Test complete. It works. Now, is there another way to forward only messages with a chosen pattern in the subject?

[TCH-Bruce]

You would have to build a filter and have it forwarded to where you want it to go.

 

Whether this will still keep a copy in the original account I don't know as I have not tested it.

[cajunman4life]

Upon an initial review, there doesn't seem to be a way to tie a filter to a particular email address (unless I'm blind but that wouldn't surprise me). I don't want it to filter all email, only emails to certain accounts. Can I do this?

[TCH-Bruce]

In the filter setup select "To" in the first dropdown, select "equals" in the second dropdown, enter the email address you want to filter in the box and then enter where you want it forwarded to in the last box.

 

If you are trying to filter on a "From" address, you will probably have to pick one of the headers and use RegX to filter it.

[cajunman4life]

Ok Bruce, but I want to filter off subject from a certain email address (example, subject contains "problem ticket" and email is addressed to "support@mydomain", forward to cell phone email). Because right now I have everything that goes to support email forwarded to my phone, but I can see down the road some things going to that email may not be relevant to what I want forwarded to my phone.

[TCH-Bruce]

You can only filter on one criteria. So if you choose "Subject" in the first dropdown and "contains" in the second and enter "problem report" in the box and enter your phone's email address in the last box.

[cajunman4life]

You can only filter on one criteria.  So if you choose "Subject" in the first dropdown and "contains" in the second and enter "problem report" in the box and enter your phone's email address in the last box.

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But then this poses the problem that when phpSupport send emails to other addresses at my domain (which I don't want on my phone) then they will be forwarded to my phone. I only wanted from one address. I'll just have to continue rolling I guess with everything going to support@mydomain being forwarded to my phone.

[TCH-Bruce]

Why don't you change your scripts that are sending the email you want to receive on the phone to use a special address that you can forward to your phone and support address.

[cajunman4life]

I suppose I could investigate that option. I was just wondering if there was something I could set up through cpanel (modifying my support package sounds suspiciously like work... lol). I'll look into it.