Topic: Admin Mail Account

[Gert]

Hi

I am replacing a Windowze 2003 Server with a SME server, but the client has been using admin@theirdomain.com for a long time and also just printed thousands of business cards.
How can i forward mail sent to admin@theirdomain.com to one account and administrative notices to another?

[cactus]

Hi

I am replacing a Windowze 2003 Server with a SME server, but the client has been using admin@theirdomain.com for a long time and also just printed thousands of business cards.
How can i forward mail sent to admin@theirdomain.com to one account and administrative notices to another?

I think you cannot, as then you should now if the content of the e-mail to decide how to route it. If you forward mail to admin to an external account you will also forward all external mail being received at the admin address.

As a side note using the admin address as a real contact e-mail address is a silly step altogether as more and more systems use this for administrative notices.

[janet]

Gert

How can i forward mail sent to admin@theirdomain.com to one account and administrative notices to another?

The easiest answer is to not use admin

A workaround would be to change the main primary domain of your server to something else (evena free domain name), then admin mail will go to admin@mainfreedomain
Then create a virtual domain which is your real domain name
Then setup a pseudonym for admin@realvirtualdomain to forward mail as usual

[Gert]

The easiest answer is to not use admin

I fully agree, I am managing about 30 servers and this is the first one were it is just not an option.

A workaround would be to change the main primary domain of your server to something else (evena free domain name), then admin mail will go to admin@mainfreedomain
Then create a virtual domain which is your real domain name
Then setup a pseudonym for admin@realvirtualdomain to forward mail as usual

An excellent idea, why did'nt I think of that, thank you.