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 <= [email protected] U=root P=local S=493 2013-09-26 17:33:08 1VPL3T-0004WU-2z => [email protected] <[email protected]> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=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" 2013-09-26 17:33:08 1VPL3T-0004WU-2z -> [email protected] <[email protected]> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=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" 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] > [email protected] > > [email protected] forwards to [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] to a folder. > > below is something from my logs to show > > 2013-09-26 12:02:46 1VPExi-0002oZ-Da <= [email protected] for > [email protected] [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> > R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery > 2013-09-26 12:02:47 1VPExi-0002oZ-Da => john <[email protected]> > R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery > 2013-09-26 12:02:48 1VPExi-0002oZ-Da Completed > > notice that the sales one has <[email protected]> and not < > [email protected]> > 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 > > -- > ## List details at > https://lists.exim.org/**mailman/listinfo/exim-users<https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users> > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ > -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
