Re: [exim] Forwarding question

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Author: John Carlson
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To: Will Smith
CC: Exim-users List
Subject: Re: [exim] Forwarding question
both john and sales are accounts, and I have a forward setup to also
send emails sent to john to sales..

I should specify that I am using cPanel



On 9/26/13 6:36 PM, Will Smith wrote:
> I assume that when you mean forwarding you are setting up john as an
> alias of sales. I have an email of admin, that forwards to will and
> david (admin: will,david in the /etc/aliases file). When I send an
> email to admin this is the log:
>
> 2013-09-26 17:33:07 1VPL3T-0004WU-2z <= root@???
> <mailto:root@cemetek.com> U=root P=local S=493
> 2013-09-26 17:33:08 1VPL3T-0004WU-2z => will@???
> <mailto:will@gmail.com> <admin@??? <mailto:admin@cemetek.com>>
> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
> <http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com> [173.194.74.27]
> X=TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16 DN="C=US,ST=California,L=Mountain
> View,O=Google Inc,CN=mx.google.com <http://mx.google.com>"
> 2013-09-26 17:33:08 1VPL3T-0004WU-2z -> david@???
> <mailto:david@gmail.com> <admin@???
> <mailto:admin@cemetek.com>> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp
> H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com <http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com>
> [173.194.74.27] X=TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16
> DN="C=US,ST=California,L=Mountain View,O=Google Inc,CN=mx.google.com
> <http://mx.google.com>"
> 2013-09-26 17:33:08 1VPL3T-0004WU-2z Completed
>
> How do you have your aliases set up?
>
> Will--
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:49 AM, John Carlson <john@???
> <mailto:john@831web.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm wondering if there is a way to change the way forwarding is
>     done. not sure exactly how to explain so here is an example

>
>     I have 2 email accounts

>
>     john@??? <mailto:john@example.com>
>     sales@??? <mailto:sales@example.com>

>
>     john@??? <mailto:john@example.com> forwards to
>     sales@??? <mailto:sales@example.com>

>
>     if I send an email to john and sales it goes to both, but when it
>     comes to sales only as a forward, and I would like it to come as
>     it's own email. the only way I can get this to happen is to send
>     an email to: john and bcc sales.

>
>     I found this out, because I have a filter in thunderbird, that
>     moves emails with to: contains john@???
>     <mailto:john@example.com> to a folder.

>
>     below is something from my logs to show

>
>     2013-09-26 12:02:46 1VPExi-0002oZ-Da <= test@???
>     <mailto:test@example2.com> for sales@???
>     <mailto:sales@example.com> john@??? <mailto:john@example.com>
>     2013-09-26 12:02:46 cwd=/var/spool/exim 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim -Mc
>     1VPExi-0002oZ-Da
>     2013-09-26 12:02:47 1VPExi-0002oZ-Da => sales <john@???
>     <mailto:john@example.com>> R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery
>     2013-09-26 12:02:47 1VPExi-0002oZ-Da => john <john@???
>     <mailto:john@example.com>> R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery
>     2013-09-26 12:02:48 1VPExi-0002oZ-Da Completed

>
>     notice that the sales one has <john@???
>     <mailto:john@example.com>> and not <sales@???
>     <mailto:sales@example.com>>
>     is this because even though the message is sent to both, it knows
>     that there is the forward so eliminates/trumps the normal email to
>     sales, and just delivers it like it is a forward?

>
>     any thoughts would be helpful

>
>     John

>
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