Parked Domain Email Forwarding to User Inbox

GeekPatrolMille · Sep 3, 2004

Parked Domain Email Forwarding to User Inbox - Potential Solution

I have 10 domains which are currently set up as parked domains under mydomain.com

Is there a way to set up a user to receive email from all of the parked domains to the common inbox at mydomain.com

Example:

park1.com
park2.com
etc... all parked domains

mydomain.com is the primary domain

greg@park1.com, greg@park2.com, greg@... should all put mail into the greg@mydomain.com inbox. At least this is the desired effect. I am trying to do this for 100+ users and 10 domains so creating forwards and aliases is not how I would like to see this work.

I have sent an email to greg@park1.com and it appears in the catchall inbox for mydomain.com because there is no user defined as greg@park1.com but there is a greg@mydomain.com setup.

Any one have a great solution...
Thanks,
-greg

GeekPatrolMille · Sep 3, 2004

OK, after posting the previous mesaage I adjusted how I was searching and found this question to be a biggie and for a long time...

I have found a quick and easy work-around which can be applied from WHM.

From the Main Manager Screen
Service Configuration
Exim Configuration Editor
Click on (EXIM) Edit Raw Config File

This allows you to edit the EXIM server config file. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFULL. You can really muck things up if you do not understand what this is and what you are about to do... If you feel confident your server is going to work no matter what you do... STOP NOW... If you know that this may ruin you whole day, week, month, year, life, etc... CONTINUE...

Scroll down to the configuration area:
######################################################################
# ROUTERS CONFIGURATION #
# Specifies how remote addresses are handled #
######################################################################
# ORDER DOES MATTER #
# A remote address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. #
######################################################################

Here you will find two text fields which you can add your own configuration commands. I used the second text field at the end of this section and just above the DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION section.

In this text field I entered the following:

forwarddomain:
driver = redirect
domains = parkeddomain.com
data = $local_part@primarydomain.com

I then clicked the SAVE button way down at the bottom of this page. Be aware, the save button will cause your EXIM to RESTART, right then, no warnings. (I only got one angry call <grin> Your results may vary.) If you do not know how long it takes your EXIM to restart, it would be best to do this during a very low usage time. Check you WHM Mail Stats page for a good time.

After everything came back up, I was able to send an email to greg@parkeddomain.com and it was delivered to greg@primarydomain.com with no problem. I am going to apply this to a handfull of the domains tonight and test some more. I will report back on the results.

Scared Scriptless
Gregory Miller
AGBSM Networks

GeekPatrolMille · Sep 5, 2004

Ok, Final note and test results...

It is not necessary to have the domain parked for this solution to work which adds the benfit of having two completely different web sites on different domains but allowing all the mail to funnel to a single common email address. This method also works if the domain is parked (just to be clear).

In my case I have 10 domains park1.com, park2.com, park3.com, etc... I added this to the routers configuration setup as described above...

forward_park1.com:
driver = redirect
domains = park1.com
data = $local_part@mydomain.com

forward_park2.com:
driver = redirect
domains = park2.com
data = $local_part@mydomain.com

forward_park3.com:
driver = redirect
domains = park3.com
data = $local_part@mydomain.com

etc...

There may be a way to combine all of this goodness into a single group of commands but I took the safe route. The safe route always requires extra typing. Better safe than sorry.

Please, if anyone has additional input, add it in. I know this has been a big issue and I have not seen any other simple fixes posted.

Good Luck,
-greg
:D

cPDan · Sep 12, 2004

To alias domains in email (whatever@parked.domain to goto whatever@main.domain instead of the default address), and do it autmatically when you create an email account for main.domain, do this:

put this in /etc/exim.conf right under "begin router"
Code:
alias_domain_file:
    driver = redirect
    domains = lsearch;/etc/aliasdomains
    data = ${quote_local_part:$local_part}@${lookup {$domain} lsearch {/etc/aliasdomains}}
then in /etc/aliasdomains add these entries foreach aliased domain you want:
Code:
parked.domain: main.domain
parked2.domain: main.domain
parked3.domain: main2.domain

Edward123 · Sep 16, 2004

I tried the above method(s) - exim would not restart.

On my attempt to use the method posted by cpdan I did find this bit in the restart failure output:

exim: router alias_domain_file: cannot find router driver "redirect" in line [nnn]

Am I missing a driver?

Thanks for your help.

cPDan · Sep 17, 2004

Edward123 said:

I tried the above method(s) - exim would not restart.

On my attempt to use the method posted by cpdan I did find this bit in the restart failure output:

exim: router alias_domain_file: cannot find router driver "redirect" in line [nnn]

Am I missing a driver?

Thanks for your help.
Click to expand...

That's odd because if I do
cat /etc/exim.conf |grep redirect
I see "driver = redirect"
8 or 9 times

Your's doesn't have those?

Edward123 · Sep 17, 2004

Doesn't have 'em. The only place the word "redirect" appears in my exim.conf file is as part of a comment that runs from approx lines 107-112, where it says:

"...# normal user. This isn't usually a problem, as most sites have an alias for
# root that redirects such mail to a human administrator."

I can put a copy of the file someplace (or e-mail it to you) if you would like to check it out.

I appreciate for your help.

cPDan · Sep 17, 2004

Edward123 said:

Doesn't have 'em. The only place the word "redirect" appears in my exim.conf file is as part of a comment that runs from approx lines 107-112, where it says:

"...# normal user. This isn't usually a problem, as most sites have an alias for
# root that redirects such mail to a human administrator."

I can put a copy of the file someplace (or e-mail it to you) if you would like to check it out.

I appreciate for your help.
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Hmm, doesn't sound like a cPanel exim installation because many of the routers in the cPanel installed exim's /etc/exim.conf use the redirect driver.

What does
exim -bV
output?

Edward123 · Sep 17, 2004

output:

Exim version 3.36 #1 built 21-April-2003 16:20:04

goodmove · Sep 17, 2004

cpdan said:

To alias domains in email (whatever@parked.domain to goto whatever@main.domain instead of the default address), and do it autmatically when you create an email account for main.domain, do this:

put this in /etc/exim.conf right under "begin router"

.....................
Click to expand...

Will this work for add-on domains and email accounts created before the Exim mod?

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