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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Andrew Sheehy on March 28, 2003, 08:18:56 PM
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How can I forward incoming e-mail to multiple e-mail accounts. The e-mail accounts that are being forwarded to are *not* on the same server so I cannot make add them to a group and forward to that.
Any help would be appreciated.
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You can make a local account which forwards to the real account. Have sue@mysme.com forward to sue@herisp.net, then include the user sue in your group.
I'm not sure if there's a more elegant way than that...
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I figured it out. As soon as I posted I remembered that qmail uses a config file in a person's home directory (usually) to control things like forwarding, vacation messages, piping,,,,etc.
Sure enough, in the root of each person's home directory was a .qmail file. After going to the qmail web site, I saw that this can control forwarding. This is done by listing the accounts that are to be forwarded to and prepending a '&'.
So, typically, the .qmail file looks like
#------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It is updated automatically by the
# e-smith server and gateway software. Instead, modify the source
# template in the /etc/e-smith/templates directory. For more
# information, see http://www.e-smith.org.
#
# copyright (C) 1999-2001 e-smith, inc.
#------------------------------------------------------------
./Maildir/
#------------------------------------------------------------
# TEMPLATE END
#------------------------------------------------------------
with no forwarding.
After I turned on forwarding, it looks like
#------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It is updated automatically by the
# e-smith server and gateway software. Instead, modify the source
# template in the /etc/e-smith/templates directory. For more
# information, see http://www.e-smith.org.
#
# copyright (C) 1999-2001 e-smith, inc.
#------------------------------------------------------------
./Maildir/
&mstolic@YYYYYYYYYY.com
&fgairdner@XXXXXXX.com
#------------------------------------------------------------
# TEMPLATE END
#------------------------------------------------------------
Of course this solution does not comply with how e-smith does things. Right in the .qmail file it tells you not to do what I have done. Good advice which I usually follow. However this change only has to last 5 biz days and I do not want these changes to be permanent.