e-mail forwarding

[vps-vince]

Hello all,
Do you know if it is possible to setup an email account (for example, I currently have orders@mydomain.com setup with my outlook express) and to also have that email address forwarded to another email account? Any ideas?

e.g. I want to be able to receive emails using my outlook express orders@mydomain.com account, and also recieve them in my forwarded destination email myself@hotmail.com

Thanks,

- Vince

[ndndixie]

Yeah, in Cpanel, look under mail, in that list it says forwarders......you can set them up for whatever e mail you wanna forward.

[vps-vince]

Hi ndndixie,
Maybe I was not clear enough.
Forwarding from cPanel would then stop any messages going to the original mailbox.
I need messages to be sent to both the original address, and another.

- Vince

[ndndixie]

It doesn't on mine. I have all of mine forwarded and it sill appears in the domain email. But now that you mention it, somewhere, there is a thing that says to keep the mail in there.......I'm looking for it now.

[smoore]

In my experience, if there is a POP account which is being forwarded, by default a copy will stay in that account also. If you wanted copies only in the fowarded account, then you would just remove the original POP account and only have a forwarder.

[Fred]

hi guys,
I read your conversation, i would like a confirmation since it was most assumptions :)

It is possible to receive a mail through the regular POP account AND forward a copy to another mail address ?

[smoore]

Yes Fred, if you setup a POP account *and* a forwarder, it will be in both places.

[Fred]

cool then...

I don't know if ethically it's right... but one of my customers is a medium-size company ... and the big boss asked me to forward every mails to another email who will analyse the content...

They had to face some industrial spying last year... and they are a bit paranoid now ... :)

[smoore]

Interesting.. I hope you have it in writing that you were directed to do this. How ethical (or legal) it is for the boss probably comes down to whether the employees have been warned that they might be monitored. Sometimes it will be in company policy on a broad level.

The only risk I see here is if something causes e-mail to bounce from the forwarded account, i.e. an out of office message, mailbox full, virus/spam detection, etc. The bounce would go back to the sender, who might in turn inquire why it bounced from an odd e-mail address. Make sure you have allocated plenty of space for the second mailbox unless you're sure it's not going to be ignored.

[Robert]

This is just my personal observations here.... I'm not representing PowerVPS nor am I a lawyer. So take my reply with a grain of salt. :)

From what I understand... employers have the legal right to monitor any and all work related e-mail accounts. If you provide your employee with an e-mail account for work, your employer can monitor that account as they see fit because it's owned by the company and supposed to be used for company business, etc.

[Fred]

yeah, i see this like robert too... The employer pays for the service and work email should be used for work only...

But i would ask a lawyer i know... to be sure it's fine for me and i don't have risk of any kind.

But... about the proposed solution... I would have to set an aliases for EACH accounts... It means a lot of aliases... like 40 or 50 ...
Doesn't something like *@domain.com exist ?

[charles]

I know postfix supports trapping all incoming and outgoing email trivially (not matter what accounts you have), so it may be possible at the MDA level for whatever you are using. I'd try a mailing list deidcated to exim or qmail or whatever it is you are using.

charles

[Fred]

Well... with postfix ( which i was using before ), i had a mysql db for customers... but It was pretty easy to do what i wanted... say every mail to support@mydomain.com were redirected to 2 other mails address... as cellphone email for sms and hotmail address.... :)

I will try an exim mailing list...
thanks for help. :)

[vps-vince]

Update:
I have tested and can confirm that if you have a pop3 address setup, and add a forwarding address, then indeed you will recieve messages at both.

My fault for taking the instructions from cPanel too literally. :rolleyes:

All email sent to pop@mydomain.com will now be redirected to pop@another.com

- Vince

[smoore]

This is just my personal observations here.... I'm not representing PowerVPS nor am I a lawyer. So take my reply with a grain of salt. :)

From what I understand... employers have the legal right to monitor any and all work related e-mail accounts. If you provide your employee with an e-mail account for work, your employer can monitor that account as they see fit because it's owned by the company and supposed to be used for company business, etc.

Here's an interesting article I found on the subject http://www.redearthsoftware.com/email-monitoring-article.htm