Lianna Posted November 5, 2002 Posted November 5, 2002 (edited) My old host had a feature available that would allow me to set up a Mail account like "SalesMgrs@" and then have all mail addressed to that account be sent to "Manager1@" AND "Manager2@" AND "Manager3@". They called it a Mail Group where I assign it's Members from the list of available email accounts in the domain. Sort of a distribution account. So, on to the question: If I create a mail account then create forwarding for that account to Manager1, and then create forwarding for that SAME account to Manager2, etc. will that work to serve the same effect? ...will that even work at all or cause big confusion in the server brain? Anybody got any suggestions? I don't want to go around crashin' stuff! Thanks! Lianna Edited August 31, 2003 by borfast Quote
Lianna Posted November 6, 2002 Author Posted November 6, 2002 So given a little time and finally my isp's dns database update, I figured this out. Forwarders are actually redirects. So, in actuality, the first redirect happens and there's nothing left to redirect to any other/second address that is set to receive the mail. ...duh! ...and it returns a Permanent error for all other 'secondary' recipients. Oh well. Although much more complex than what I was looking for, a mailing list will work for my purpose. Just seems like overkill for such a simple concept. If you guys in the top loop here happen across a better solution for me, I'd appreciate it. Lianna Quote
pphoa Posted February 9, 2003 Posted February 9, 2003 I don't understand much of the technicalities in the previous messages, but I wanted this feature and figured out how to make it work. I set up a forwarder which forwards to two comma-separated addresses like: user1@domain1.com, user2@domain2.com It works great. However, in the list of forwarders only the first address is listed! This makes me worried - is this supported? Quote
pphoa Posted February 9, 2003 Posted February 9, 2003 I made a mistake. The forwarder does indeed list both forwarded-to destinations. I hadn't noticed that the forwarded-from address is listed twice. This makes me more confident that it is a supported feature. Please don't take this nice feature away. Quote
KevinW Posted February 9, 2003 Posted February 9, 2003 cPanel will allow you to create multiple forwarders for the same email address. So you can then forward all email for jdoe@mysite.com to both john@yahoo.com and johndoe@work.com -kw Quote
toddcurry Posted May 30, 2003 Posted May 30, 2003 that's just soooooo cool. Cpanel never ceases to amaze me -- thanks, guys for explaining this great feature! TC TCH Rocks Quote
Head Guru Posted May 30, 2003 Posted May 30, 2003 I agree cPanel is a very nice control panel. cPanel ROCKS! Quote
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