Catch-all forward to other domain

[itnova]

Hello all,

I am currently migrating my old servers to new servers with the plesk interface, and i am having the following problem.

i have 2 domains, domain1 & domain2. which both have a different site, but only use 1 mail account.
so if i mail to user@domain1 it needs to be deliverd to user@domain2.

on my old sendmail server i could forward all mails with a wildcard user to it would be mailed to the same user on a different server, is something like this possible on plesk alsow?

Greetz.

 

[Xcalibur]

Of course you can do that on Plesk too. In fact there are many ways to do it depending on your needs and preferences. One of the easiest ways to do it is:

a) Create a POP email account for user@domain2

b) Create a default email account on domain1 specifying user@domain2 as the forward to address email.

This way, any email sent to an address under domain1 will be recived at user@domain2 since there is no other existing email account at domain1.

The pitfall with using Catch-all accounts, is the elevated amount of undesired email that you can potentialy recive.

Another way is:

a) Create a POP email account for user@domain2

b) Creating a mail forward (redirect) for user@domain1 redirected to user@domain2

You can find step-by-step flash tutorial with detailed instructions on how to acomplish each of this steps at parallels website (http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/tutorials/#eu). Look for "Creating a POP email account", "Creating a default email account" and "Creating a mail forward (redirect)"

It will only take you 2 -3 minutes to watch each of them.

Hope it helps.

 

[itnova]

Thanks for your reply Xcalibur;

but what i exactly want is like a maildomainalias. sow lets say if got 100 users on domain1 and i want al of those users alsow to recieve mail sent @domain2 (sow an mail alias).

But i want a different site for domain2 than one, and there comes the problem because in plesk you can't create to links to a domain even if one is for mail and the other for the site.

Of course you can do that on Plesk too. In fact there are many ways to do it depending on your needs and preferences. One of the easiest ways to do it is:

a) Create a POP email account for user@domain2

b) Create a default email account on domain1 specifying user@domain2 as the forward to address email.

This way, any email sent to an address under domain1 will be recived at user@domain2 since there is no other existing email account at domain1.

The pitfall with using Catch-all accounts, is the elevated amount of undesired email that you can potentialy recive.

Another way is:

a) Create a POP email account for user@domain2

b) Creating a mail forward (redirect) for user@domain1 redirected to user@domain2

You can find step-by-step flash tutorial with detailed instructions on how to acomplish each of this steps at parallels website (http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/tutorials/#eu). Look for "Creating a POP email account", "Creating a default email account" and "Creating a mail forward (redirect)"

It will only take you 2 -3 minutes to watch each of them.

Hope it helps.

 

[Xcalibur]

Hi,

Im not completly sure about what you are trying to acomplish. However if im getting you right, I guess you can do it with a combination of email alias and mail group.

Take a look at:

- "Creating a email alias" on my previous reference.
- "Setting Up Mail Forwarding to a Single E-mail Address"
- "Setting Up Mail Forwarding to Multiple E-mail Addresses"

Maybe it could take some time but it can be done.

Good luck!