mail forwarders...not working completely...

[Devil Inside]

Ok here's the setup:

username: bobby
catchall addy: spam@domain.com

forwarders-
one@domain.com --> bobby@domain.com (it was entered into cpanel as "bobby")

two@domain.com --> user@anotherdomain.com

three@domain.com --> bobby@hostname.com

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Ok - one does not work. Cant find out why.
two works
and three works.

since the address that the mail is being forwarded to in "one" is the username account - I tried to simply enter "bobby" (no quotes) as the receiving addy. That did not work. Also tried bobby@domain.com

I remember something awhile back about forwarders or something not working right if the catchall addy was set to something other than the username account..

any ideas?

[easyhoster1]

Is there any error in;

/var/log/exim/mainlog ?

[Devil Inside]

Nothing our of the ordinary I don;t think...

2004-02-10 14:06:06 1Aqe90-0001Pm-BV <= info@devilinside.net U=nobody P=local S=1035
2004-02-10 14:06:07 1Aqe90-0001Pm-BV => spamaddy <bobby@domain.com> R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery

that's one of the test emails that didn't get delivered to the bobby addy. It went to the catchall spamaddy.

[nickn]

Are you able to send to other domains on the server at all?

For instance, try to create a pop3 account (test2@domain.com) can you send to it from the same domain?

It almost sounds like it may be a issue with /etc/localdomains

[Devil Inside]

ok - I setup another account on the domain and that also got forwarded to the spam addy when I emailed it directly to the bobby@domain.com

so..what would I look for in the localdomains file?

oh - and yes they can send to other domains on the server as my domain is on the same server.

[nickn]

If they can send to other domains than that would rule out the localdomains issue.

[Devil Inside]

hmm - alright then...

I'll just go back to being thoroughly confused.

Thanks for the help!

[easyhoster1]

Can you pop the box for bobby@domain.com ?
(login)

[Devil Inside]

Yep!

[easyhoster1]

Hmm...You can look at the file for the domain at;

/etc/valiases and make sure bobby@domain is listed
with its forward address.

If it is, also try running;

touch /home/username/mail/inbox ; /scripts/mailperm

See if that helps.

[Devil Inside]

checked valiases - and ran the commands you suggested.

Still not working.

Could someone try setting this type of configuration up on their box and let me know if it works?

I'm running 8.8.0 stable 68

[Devil Inside]

BUMP!

anyone else care to take a stab at this one?

I'm really beginning to think it's a cpanel issue....

[goodmove]

Have you got spamassassin running on that domain? If so, try setting up another mailbox for the catchall instead of spam@domain.com.

[Devil Inside]

No it's not.

thanks for the suggestion though

[anand]

Originally posted by Devil Inside
No it's not.

thanks for the suggestion though

Do a mail -v bobby@domain.com on shell and paste the results here.

If you want PM me ur server info, i will try to fix it for you.