> From Terry Allen, received 24/6/01, 4:46 pm +1000 (GMT):
>> Hi again,
>> It looks as though I'll be hosting a site with a new domain for
>> someone, as well as email. The person already has an email address that
>> they wish to retain, so I want to forward the email to their current
>> address.
>> Instead of setting up an account & having their address in the
>> Mirror List, with any mail being dropped into the account then forwarded,
>> if I add an entry to the router like so:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> am I right in assuming that the mail never makes it into SIMS, it will
>> simply get bounced onto the other server?
>
>No, it'll come through SIMS anyway, which will route it back out. But
>you need to specify it as:
>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>or you may wish to direct all mail for the new domain to them, like this:
>
><*@newaddress.com> = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>--
> Steve Linford
Hi Steve,
Many thanks for that - I can now add an entry when everything else
is set up. I thought the idea behind the router was so as to make the mail
bounce off to it's correct destination without entering the server's SMTP.
Obviously I'm wrong here.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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