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I am registering domains on behalf of customers and need to setup email forwarding so I can setup an email address as simple as info@theirdomain.com to forward to their existing mail service (hotmail, gmail etc). We are hosting their websites at their domains but do not wish to host an email server or make them switch email providers at this time.

I have complete control over the DNS setup of their domains and a CentOS server to run some sort of mail-forwarding software on.

How do I go about setting this up / what sort of software do I need?

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Is this on shared hosting or VPS/real server? – paulmorriss Oct 3 '11 at 15:20
@paulmorriss Real server – Dunhamzzz Oct 3 '11 at 15:57
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I recommend exim as MTA.

Its really simple. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/spec_50.html

Just add small 'forward' file, like

boss@mydomain    boss-my-domain@gmail.com

And , dont forget add MX record to dns.

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Thanks, I will look into it, is it possible to do wildcards? – Dunhamzzz Oct 4 '11 at 9:45
as i know - yes. wildcards are possible – Korjavin Ivan Oct 4 '11 at 11:08
What DNS/MX Records do I need to setup? – Dunhamzzz Oct 5 '11 at 13:40
@ MX 10 mail.server.com – Korjavin Ivan Oct 5 '11 at 16:50
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Even as pure forwarder it must to be full-size e-mail server (it just not have local users and forward all to another MTA). How to setup, which MTA to use is slightly different and next question (just to note - any MTA, which your postmaster know well, can be used)

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