Best way of forwarding email

Russinating · 10 Oct 2013 at 11:15

Our email forwarders (in cPanel) are a mess at the moment. We don't even have a big office as there's only 3 of us but we do have numerous domains which is why it's quite messy.

So for example, for each domain there's:

person1@
person2@
person3@
generic@

Each email needs to be forwarded to every other person PLUS each person's Gmail account which acts as a 'bin' for all domains to read on phones etc. So as an actual example:

Email gets sent to [email protected]. Gets forwarded to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].

We've got about 6 active domains that this works for hence the messy

. Any advice?

Russinating · 10 Oct 2013 at 11:35

Forgot to say the problem we're currently having, and that's that email sent from say [email protected] to [email protected] and [email protected] don't get received by their @domain.com accounts, but do go to their @gmail.com accounts. Not sure why this is, perhaps stopping an email loop? No idea.

Azza · 10 Oct 2013 at 11:44

Do you have Google Apps?

Russinating · 10 Oct 2013 at 13:08

No. Just use cPanel (Vidahost) for the mail accounts and forwarding.

Deleted member 77746 · 10 Oct 2013 at 16:02

Easy.... do a catch all forward. CPanel does it.

Russinating · 10 Oct 2013 at 16:19

Sorry, obviously not looking in the right place - whereabouts? I can set a default address, but it only allows one email, or forwarders which again don't allow comma separation.

Azza · 10 Oct 2013 at 18:12

Isn't a catch all just for email that goes to an invalid email address at your domain?

The only other way apart from doing the multiple separate forwarders in cPanel, you can't do comma separation because of some JavaScript validation issues I believe, is to set up GMail accounts for each of your @domain emails. Then add the @domain emails as a send from address, then add a forwarder and then add filters for the other addresses, as you can only have one forwarder in GMail. That'll probably take while but you'll be able to email from GMail with your domain email instead of RoundCube or what ever it is you use now.

Deleted member 77746 · 10 Oct 2013 at 19:51

ah sorry catch all couldn't be used here.

Russinating · 11 Oct 2013 at 08:59

Hmm, dammit. The long/messy way it is! Need to figure out why mail isn't getting delivered though, will contact Vidahost.

We use Thunderbird/Mail atm and want to stay away from web-based.