Forwarding a web site elsewhere

Overview A forwarded website can be accomplished by first creating a subdomain or addon domain in the control panel, then using an .htaccess in document root to redirect all traffic to the new web site using mod_rewrite. Important terminology Forwarded domain: domain that will redirect to the target domain Target domain: domain that is the final destination…

Mail forwarded to GMail is delayed

Overview When creating a forwarded email to deliver mail to third-party providers, such as GMail and Live, mail delivery may appear spotty with some messages never arriving. Cause Certain mail providers use internal heuristics to delay or discard email. Many of these heuristics are trade secrets known only to the service provider by design to…

Mail filtering

Overview Message filtering is done prior to delivery via maildrop. Each message goes through two levels of filters: (1) global — processed first in /etc/maildroprc followed by (2) local per-user filters in $HOME/.mailfilter. Basic filtering recipes are provided below. Syntax and usage may be found in mailfilter(7). Important: on older platforms, (less than v6), remember to…

Converting e-mail address types

Overview In certain situations, an e-mail address that delivers to an account on the server may want to be converted to an e-mail address that forwards externally to another address and vice-versa. Solution Login to the control panel Visit Mail > Manage Mailboxes Under Change Mode, select View/Edit Mailboxes Select the mailbox to edit by the edit icon within the Actions…