My previous servers were Ensim machines and it seems forwarding works differently on CP machines.

On the Ensim machines I could make a mail box and it would get mail or I could go into the GUI and choose to forward the mail or I could go into the user's account and forward the mail. To the best of my understanding no mail would go into the mail box when forwarded and in fact, you didn't have to have an actual email box.

The other day I got cPanel server error messages that two email boxes were full and wouldn't accept more mail. I was shocked to see it was two email boxes that were forwarding the mail to another email account. Tech support here said I needed to remove the mail boxes and just set up the forwarding but I found that doesn't forward the mail...they seem to get gobbled up and don't go anywhere, perhaps due to the blackhole filter.

To summarize.

1. Do I have to have an email box to forward mail?

2. If I am going to forward the mail, does it also have to go to the mail box as well, negating the value of forwarding it?

From my perspective it is more like a copying feature, not a forwarding feature??

Thanks,

Lew

No. You can forward mail from blah@domain.com to wherever you want. The account blah@domain.com doesn't have to exist, just a forwarder.


You can a) Create the email account AND a forwarder. This would result in the messages being kept in the email account AND being forwarded, OR b) Don't create an email account, just do the forwarding.

Happy hosting.

Thanks for the confirmation. I have set one up and sent some test messages and they were not forwarded. Any suggestions on what to do next?

Not really.

rDNS?