Interesting email forwarding problem.

[RJay45]

Hello,

We had a customer today email us about an interesting email problem. They have two separate accounts on this particular server that they manage, lets say:

account1.com
account2.com

Now account1.com has a catch-all inbox configured (pop@account1.com). He wanted to set up a forwarder from the address addr1@account2.com to addr2@account1.com.

Now sending email direct to addr2@account1.com works as the catch all kicks in and forwards the email to the pop@.. mail box. However the forwarding from account2.com does not work, the email is not delivered.

In the end I have advised the customer to forward directly to their catch-all box which seems to do the trick.

My question is, is this normal behaviour, or have we got a misconfiguration? Sorry if the forwarding spaghetti junction is confusing!

[madaboutlinux]

hmm.. interesting, may be because the email has to be deliered locally.. not sure though. What do the email logs say:

tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog