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Title: Forwarding emails to non-local email addresses
Post by: sgwestrip on January 18, 2006, 01:53:08 PM

I have scoured the forums and have found no answer to this problem.

We have an office in the UK, and one in Asia. They have separate domains (e.g. company.com and company-asia.com). What I want to do is to be able to send an email to, say, support@company.com, and that to expand to 4 company.com email addresses and 2 company-asia.com addresses. As the company-asia.com addresses are effectively external (non-local) I can find no way of doing this. The local addresses are easy to do via a group.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

Title: Forwarding emails to non-local email addresses
Post by: p-jones on January 18, 2006, 02:27:39 PM

Try creating a "phantom user account" for each user, in the email delivery option select forward to and put in the email address of each person at company-aisia.com then add these users to the local group.

If you use "cryptic" names (like asup1 or asell35) then these accounts wont get in the way of bona fide user names you may want to create later.

The converse would also apply for your aisia-company.com domain

This works for me in a rather similar situation. Someone else may have a better solution.

HTH
Peter

Title: Forwarding emails to non-local email addresses
Post by: sgwestrip on January 18, 2006, 02:52:25 PM

Thank you for your reply.

That is the only solution that I could come up with as well. A bit ugly though. It would be good if the 'Pseudonyms' section allowed for external email addresses.

I am used to using Sendmail and this would be a breeze using the 'aliases' file .

Thanks,
Steve