Hi,
We have a VPS with many cPanel accounts for our customers' sites. We've been telling them that if they want to forward their email accounts (that we initially setup for them) they can do this easily enough in their Webmail interface. This way we don't have to be involved each time. A lot of our clients are using personal webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, etc.) and just don't want to learn a new interface.
But in reading up on it a bit more, it does mention that cPanel only forwards a COPY of the original email instead of 'moving' it.
- So does this mean the original forwarding email account (which they don't want to check) is going to fill up and start rejecting incoming email without them knowing??
- If they need to manually go in and delete stored email, is there any way for them to be notified when their quota is close to maxing out??
- In either case, is there any way (scripts, plugins, etc.) to get the email in forwarded accounts to be automatically deleted, either immediately or after a certain time period??
Thanks. We really didn't want to have to manage this for all of our many clients and all of their many email accounts. It's really surprising if the forwarding option is so easily available in the Webmail interface that this issue would be so easy to cause.
We have a VPS with many cPanel accounts for our customers' sites. We've been telling them that if they want to forward their email accounts (that we initially setup for them) they can do this easily enough in their Webmail interface. This way we don't have to be involved each time. A lot of our clients are using personal webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, etc.) and just don't want to learn a new interface.
But in reading up on it a bit more, it does mention that cPanel only forwards a COPY of the original email instead of 'moving' it.
- So does this mean the original forwarding email account (which they don't want to check) is going to fill up and start rejecting incoming email without them knowing??
- If they need to manually go in and delete stored email, is there any way for them to be notified when their quota is close to maxing out??
- In either case, is there any way (scripts, plugins, etc.) to get the email in forwarded accounts to be automatically deleted, either immediately or after a certain time period??
Thanks. We really didn't want to have to manage this for all of our many clients and all of their many email accounts. It's really surprising if the forwarding option is so easily available in the Webmail interface that this issue would be so easy to cause.