Ok, so you won't have the old account. You'll either have to:
a) delete the old account and modify all the forwards to use the new
account. You'll either have to use qmailadmin or write an sql command to
change all the forwards.
or
b) add your old account to /var/qmail/control/badmailto, and have a forward
from your old account to your new account. This will save you from having to
modify all the forwards only if badmailto doesn't apply to local
(intra-domain) email. I don't know if that's the case or not. You could test
it out first to see if this is how the toaster works. Maybe someone else on
the list knows the answer.
Shai wrote:
Once I don't have the old account... I won't get spam to it. Some how,
my real account got into some spam lists and I get spammed to my
main/real account. That's why I want to change it.
On 8/17/06, Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't quite see how that will solve your problem. I think you'll
need to
add a new account, change all the forwards to the new account, then
remove
the old account. If you know MySQL, it'd be trivial to write a sql
command
to change all the forwards. I don't know sql that well off the top of my
head though.
That being said, I don't know if badmailto kicks in for local mail or
not.
If it doesn't get applied to local mail, you could simply add your old
account to badmailto without having to change the forwards.
HTH
Shai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the help... been waiting for that answer a long time :)
> As to your question, I don't get spammed to my forwarded emails but I
> do get spammed at my main address. Which is why I need to change my
> main address (and never again give it out to friends!) and then have
> all the forwards that used to be to the old main address forward
> emails to the new main address (which noone will ever know :) again!).
>
> Shai
>
> On 8/16/06, Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Shai wrote:
>> > Does anyone know how to do this?
>> >
>> > Shai
>> >
>> > On 7/6/06, Shai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm using forwarding address to reduce spam to a single mailbox.
>>
>> I'm not clear what you mean by this, and why you're doing this.
>>
>> >> I now have about 200 of these forwards and even so, I'm started
>> >> getting spam that arrives directly to my forwarded email address
(my
>> >> real account) and so I want to change that email address forward.
>> >>
>> >> 1. how can I change my mailbox's email address?
>>
>> Create a new account, then delete your current account, and where it
>> asks,
>> specify the new account to forward to. It will automatically create a
>> forward for your old name to your new name.
>>
>> >> 2. how can I update my 200 mail forwards to this new email account?
>>
>> I'm guessing that they'll forward to the new forward (old account
name),
>> which will then forward to the new account. No need to change
>> forwards. I'd
>> test it out first though to make sure it works that way (I can't
>> imagine why
>> it wouldn't).
>>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >> Shai
>> >>
>>
>> I'm curious as to why all the forwards though. If you know the forward
>> names
>> only get spammed (no mail you want to review), I'd add those
addresses to
>> the /var/qmail/control/badmailto file. That way they get rejected
at the
>> smtp level, and they never even come into the server.
>>
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>
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-Eric 'shubes'
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-Eric 'shubes'
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