How to Discard after forwarding email?

[mtindor]

SageBrian: Certainly just using a forward would accomplish this. However, the problem is that if you only have a forwarder and you do not have a POP3 account by the same name, you get no spam filtering. So, let's say that mailbox gets 100 messages today and 99% of those are spam, if you only use a forward and forward those emails onward, you've just forwarded 99 spam emails to another place. And if that place is Hotmail, or Yahoo, or AOL, or Comcast, or one of many other places, you'll find that they refuse to accept any of that mail either temporarily or permanently in the future because it was found by them to be spammy.

So in order to do it gracefully and in a more net-friendly way, you'd have to create a POP3 account, enable spamassassin for that domain, set it to autodelete spam, and then set a forward on it. Then any incoming mail found to be spam will be deleted. Of course, a the origianl message ends up in the POP3 mailbox and will need to be deleted, but then only the emails that spamassassin didn't tag as spam will be forwarded, making it much less likely that the mail system hosting the email address that mail is being forwarded to won't reject/blacklist those mails down the road.

Mike

Would not the proper way to do this is to just use forwards?

Forwarder goes to their ISP/other mailbox.
Then, setup their mail client at their ISP/other to send as the forward? Unless, of course, we are dealing with AOLer's.

example:
sales@companycom ----> happy456@gmail
info@companycom ----> happy456@gmail

On gmail, setup aliases so they can send out with an address of 'sales@companycom' or 'info@companycom'


One thing to keep in mind with the forwards to another ISP, especially AOL, is that the other ISP may view you as a spammer or spam relay.

Brian

[mtindor]

Taotoon,

Can you tell me if spam emails get forwarded or if they do not when you do it your way?

If you have spamassassin enabled on that domain, will spam-tagged emails be autodeleted if you have Autodelete Spam enabled, before forwarding the mails?

mike

This is a trick. No need to setup forward mail account.

Setup account filtering in cpanel page:

Any header contain your@yourdomain.com redirect to email your@gmail.com

Don't forget to add your@yourdomain.com in Gmail contact list to avoid spam or blacklist.

[mfwills]

Does spam filtering work if the mailbox to which you are forwarding is in the same domain/server?

All I am interested in is what other systems call "aliases." I don't want any mail kept where it is really just a duplicate of what has been forwarded.

Matt

[agentblack]

i tried just using the forwarder for our fire department emails however that method doesnt work. the server accepts the mail, but it doesnt send it anywhere.

originally what i had set up was a pop account, then went to forwarders and added the forward, but as the server started to fill up, i went thru and tried deleting just the pop account and leaving the forwarder and it doesnt work.

what i want to happen:

email comes in, email is then forwarded on to the correct location. our department is too small to have people logging into the server to check pop, and it is easier for us to forward the mail out to everyone. once the message is forwarded, i want it deleted so it doesnt take up space.

thoughts on how to make this happen?

[cPanelDon]

originally what i had set up was a pop account, then went to forwarders and added the forward, but as the server started to fill up, i went thru and tried deleting just the pop account and leaving the forwarder and it doesnt work.

The described scenario of only having an e-mail forwarder (e-mail alias) should work; if the e-mail account is removed and you have ensured the e-mail forwarder exists but still does not work, please submit a ticket as it may require more in-depth inspection of the issue.