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Forward incoming mail on Linux server?

I am trying to set up mail forwarding on a new server of mine. For example, I want emailaddress@mydomain.com to forward all email sent to it to, say, otheremail@gmail.com. I do not need/want to be able to send mail from mydomain. I'm running Ubuntu…
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Procedure to forward root email to external email

I would like to forward the emails received by root to an external email on an Ubuntu node. I have seen this post, but it does not explain much about the procedure to follow. There are some other posts available online, but they are often incomplete…
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SPF hardfail and DKIM failure when recipient has e-mail forwarding

I configured hardfail SPF for my domain and DKIM message signing on my SMTP server. Since this is the only SMTP server that should be used for outgoing mail from my domain, I didn't foresee any complications. However, consider the following…
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How can I forward mail while saving a copy using postfix and mysql?

I'm migrating email from old Plesk installations to custom built Ubuntu server running iRedMail (postfix/amavisd/dovecot/etc). I'm using postfixadmin to administrate all domains and a mysql backend. I've noticed that if I want to "alias" something…
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How do I set up my MX records to properly forward mail to my Gmail account?

So I have to confess that I'm not a network admin so my knowledge of DNS is very limited, and I think I've screwed something up. I own a domain--let's call it mydomain.com. I had my hosting provider set it up so that gordon@mydomain.com forwards to…
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SPF broken by forwarding on the recipient side : what do?

I run an SMTP server with SPF enabled, and I need to email users from a list of academic addresses. Thing is, these addresses are used to forward emails to the end user. And SPF breaks forwarding, as I figured out the hard way (554 5.7.9 errors…
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virtual_alias_domains - how to use different IP addresses when forwarding mail?

I host 2 web domains (domain1.com and domain2.com) on a CentOS 6.6 Linux server with 4 IP addresses. Postfix 2.6.6 accepts mails to info@domain1.com and info@domain2.com and forwards them to person1@gmail.com and person2@gmail.com. Here excerpts of…
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How I (simply) Forward All Incoming Email to an External Address (ie. Gmail)?

With Google Apps no longer being free for small businesses/teams, I'm left pointing my MX records at my application server. I'd still like to receive email at a Gmail address sent to the domain associated with aforementioned MX records. I have…
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Simple SMTP server for alias based forwarding

I'm looking for a SMTP server that will just be used to forward a few email addresses. Two requirements: Easy to install and configure on Ubuntu. Has an aliases file that is easy to automatically add to. Ideally, it would be a text file consisting…
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Simple SMTP server which can redirect all mail to single address?

We're in the process of setting up a continuous-integration server (Hudson running on CentOS5), and some of our unit tests will cause email to be sent. We'd like to configure the server so that all email sent via the local SMTP server is routed to a…
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Exchange mailbox forwarding - emails fail dkim body hash

Exchange is modifying emails before forwarding them out to an external Google Apps account. I'm hoping to find a way to fix this. Here's some more detail: Using Exchange 2010 SP3 Version 14.3.123.4 The exchange server is forwarding email of some…
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Relay email for some addresses, forward for others with Postfix

I administer a domain (let's say example.com) for a client who uses an Exchange server at an external service provider for email. So I made the MX record point to the Exchange server, let's say mail.provider.com. Now I want email to a single address…
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Postfix forwarding to GMail address

I configured postfix to forward mail to external addresses (mostly GMail): user1@mydomain.com user1@gmail.com user2@mydomain.com user2@gmail.com office@mydomain.com user1@gmail.com, user2@gmail.com, ... ... Everything works fine, except…
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Scripted forwarding for Outlook 2003

We have a staff member in sales who has gone onto a 4 day week (getting ready for retirement), so each Thursday afternoon her email needs to be forwarded to another user and each Friday afternoon it needs to be set back. I'm using the VBS script…
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Can sendmail forward e-mail immediately instead of queueing?

Some of the e-mail passing through my server is forwarded to external accounts. Unfortunately, my upstream SMTP-server is very picky about spam -- and rejects some of the legitimate messages as such. When this happens to the forwarded mail, I get…
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