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Exchange Online redirect rule doesn't reset "To" address

My configuration goal is to forward / redirect a message going to a mailbox to an external site (its an email capture setup). I was using forwarding, which is straight forward but includes the ...
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Why does DMARC fail for forwarded emails from this particular domain when it passes for all other domains?

I run a virtual mail server that forwards emails to my domain to a Gmail address, and I use PostSRSd to rewrite the addresses. For example, if someone sends an email to john@mydomain.com, my mail ...
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Postfix: email forwarding to google, never re-try deliveries

I've a Postfix server with two virtual domains, users and aliases. Some of my users want their email centralized at Gmail and have aliases in place to redirect incoming e-mail to their Gmail accounts. ...
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How to provide /etc/aliases / .forward functionality in the current anti-spam environment?

The actual problem I'm having: My email server (exim, but it hardly matters for this), which I've been running for years, forwards email via /etc/aliases (i.e. board@foo.com points to ~5 people) and ...
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DKIM fails when users forward Hotmail to Gmail

I use AWS SES for sending mail and CloudFlare for DNS. I set up DKIM following this tutorial. It works well. When a user provides a hotmail.com address and forwards it to Gmail, I receive an email ...
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How to set up unusual Posfix mail forwarding: if in A mail for B, resend it to C

I have several Ubuntu servers as Mail-servers. How to configure the following configuration with POSTFIX: if in mailbox user1@domain1 arrived mail for user2@domain2, resend it to user3@domain3. user1@...
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status=bounced (mail forwarding loop for postmaster@localhost) when receiving an email with postfix

I use postfix with the following /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) biff = no append_dot_mydomain = no readme_directory = no compatibility_level = 2 ...
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Gmail blocks mails in case they are forwarded

My website sends mails to users. This has been working wonderfully for years. But since a year or so, gmail blocks mails in the following scenario: A user has the email firstname@theirowndomain.com. ...
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Office 365 - Forward email to external domain without a mailbox

We have office 365. We want to forward email addresses from our domain to people outside our domain. i.e. support@mydomain.com -> support@externalcompany.com One way I think I can do this is: ...
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How to send email on behalf of a customer, such that they handle replies?

Scenario: I have a customer A, who authorizes me / my software to send email on their behalf to their customers P, Q, etc. Additionally, P, Q, etc. should see the email as coming from a.example.com. ...
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Sending system mail via SMTP to public mail server - port already in use

I have a docker host that runs a containerized mail server. On the host there are a couple of system status mails in the mail queue that I want to be forwarded to my mail account. These Mails are ...
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How do I forward all invalid incoming mails in exim

I have to all my invalid incoming to new addresss I have a route like this. virtual_aliases: driver = redirect allow_defer allow_fail domains = lsearch;/etc/userdomains user = "${...
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Email forwarding resulting in SPAM and bad headers

How can I circumvent spam errors when using a mail forwarder in cPanel? I have a domain which I have configured an email forwarder to forward all emails sent to me@mydomain.com -> me@gmail.com so ...
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Forwarding emails while keeping From header intact

What I want to achieve is mails sent to a specific user on my domain get forwarded to "subscribed" addresses I manage while preserving sender information and extending that with forwarding ...
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Postfix forwarding to Gmail and local UNIX user

I would like to forward all email coming to everything in @foo.com to bar@gmail.com and also to the UNIX user baz. I tried adding both baz and bar@gmail.com to the virtual file (see config below), but ...
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How to prevent email forwarded by exim from being seen as spam

I have recently started to look after a mail system where users can host their email with a web mail front end. One of the features provided is a function to set up forwarding. The problem I am ...
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SPF/DKIM setup for a registrar's email forward

I have a number of domains with a registrar with straight forward forwards to another email address. The system has worked flawlessly for a lot of years over a lot of domains but recently I created a ...
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Can an SMTP server tell the sending MTA to send to another address?

Can e-mail forwarding be accomplished with the receiving MTA responding in some way that tells the sending MTA that it should send the e-mail to another address, or must e-mail forwarding be performed ...
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I am using Gmail with a vanity account alias and external SMTP server (AWS SES). My first email is not being threaded

So this is a minor inconvenience but I am curious if anyone well versed in email forwarding and Gmail can help me. I have a vanity domain I'll call code@coder.dev. I am using it as an alias for my ...
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Correct SPF record to avoid softfail for emails sent from domain address using Gmail?

I have a domain address, such as me@example.com, which forwards to Gmail. Gmail is configured to 'send email as' me@example.com, using example.com's SMTP server. Emails sent from Gmail as me@example....
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Is an email alias technically the same as a forwarding internally?

I know there are several drawbacks using email forwarders. So I was wondering if adding an alias to an address is the same as adding a forwarder to that email address? It just differs how tools like ...
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Mail forwarder or something like that

I don't know where to start for searching this thing. I need a simple server that act like an SMTP server, accept all incoming email from every ip, every address, every everything, and forward the ...
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What is current advice on forwarding email - particularly to gmail

I want to move from my current hosting site to a VPS. I am very comfortable with the website hosting side of things but at the moment my stumbling block is email, something which I have never had to ...
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Email forwarding SPF and DKIM domains

In preparation for publishing a strict DMARC policy, I've: Published a reporting-only policy. Gathered nearly 2 months' worth of reports and uploaded them to dmarcian. Started analysing them and ...
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getting the same email multiple times (email duplication)

im not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it is some type of server / mail error so... The Problem: some emails that are sent to an email distributor reach all members of this distributor ...
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Forwarding eMails from Exchange to Icewarp bounces back, but not via distribution list

we are testing heavily Icvewarp as replacement for our outdated Exchange. Unfortunatly there is nearly no docu around in the internet, which makes it not easy :-( We have now set up the Icewarp ...
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Exchange admin center forward and prepend body

I want to forward all incoming E-mails to my HubSpot CRM System. To achieve this I want to configure my Exchange Server to forward them. Exchange Server seems to provide only a redirect rule and no ...
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How does Virtualmin do email forwarding?

I'm confused: when I add forwarding to an existing email address in Virtualmin (6.08, Centos 7), it doesn't modify the /etc/postfix/virtual or any other file in /etc/ that I can tell. When I grep for ...
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Forward from one Distribution Group to another DG inbox?

Our Research Department needs to have a group email (Distribution Group); the email will consist of Staff 1, Staff 2, and Staff 3. We would like the email to copy the old.dg@123.org, where the email ...
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Are email-forwarding services safe to use [closed]

Basically can services like this snoop into my emails, even if it is an open-source system (i.e. server code may not match open source code)? Are there further resources I can read to feel more ...
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Postfix forward mails to external domains as (inline) bounce

My problem: I own a postfix server with several Aliases on it. For example: info@my.tld => abc@gmail.com If I now send a email from def@gmail.com to info@my.tld it get's forwarded to abc@gmail.com ...
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Outlook Inbox after spoofing attack is empty. Incoming mails not coming through in Inbox

Supposedly, a spoofing mail was sent to a internal and hundreds of external people from our user's account last Wednesday. Since Friday afternoon, her Outlook Inbox is shown empty and she is not able ...
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Exim .forward fails unexpectedly

I am trying to enable synchronous processing of incoming email on a host running exim. In the absence of a .forward file, mail gets appended to the expected /var/spool/mail/$USER I added a very ...
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Postfix header conditional rewrite

in my mail server I have a mailbox me@mrtsolutions.it and an alias ciao@mrtsolutions.it which send all to me@gmail.com. Now when I send from user@gmail.com an email to ciao@mrtsolutions.it, I receive ...
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Forward mail using qmail to multiple recipients dynamically

I am trying to forward an incoming mail to multiple recipients. The recipient's addresses are stored inside a mysql database, so I need to call a script to get the addresses before forwarding the mail....
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chaining email forwarders (forward an email to a forwarded address)

We can forward a forwarder to an address that is itself forwarded: first_address@example.com -> second_address@example.com second_address@example.com -> third_address@example.com third_address@...
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Exchange Online - Route email to different address depending on sender initials

So our HR department is tiny, and gets an enormous amount of email from our agency at large. They'd like us to forward email to different members of their team, based on the alphabetical order of the ...
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Postfix forward email to my gmail from a gmail failed

I am not possible to forward email from gmail account to a gmail. I come across with below link which telling that gmail is blocked to stop looping. https://superuser.com/questions/332389/postfix-...
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Postfix + Dovecot to receive emails only for specific mailboxes others piped to php script

I am fairly new to Postfix, Dovecot and have only basic knowledge of mail routing. There is a server that supposed to receive emails for variety of mailboxes with unlimited domains. (info@example.com,...
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Xeams to Postfix Forwarder

I have a xeams mail server that has got forwarders setup to filter then forward mail onto a postfix server. The problem is that whenever I try send an email from the xeams server to an email address ...
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DMARC fails on forwarded mails without DKIM

I am running a mail server (postfix) on a VPS that is set up to forward all mail sent to an address in my private domain to a GMail address. SPF, SRS, DKIM, and DMARC are set up for my mail server and ...
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Disclosure of recipient’s forward email address when my email bounces

A few times I had a situation like this: I sent an email to foobar@example.com. For this email, I received a delivery failure report, giving reasons like "550 5.1.1" (user unknown) or "552-5.7.0" (...
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Postfix + Dovecot + Sieve + forwarding + sieve

Let's suppose my domain at exampleserver.com. I have following sieve rule: require ["fileinto", "subaddress", "mailbox", "variables"]; if address :detail :matches "to" "*" { set "folder" "${1}"; ...
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postfix - forward mail for unknown clients to another server: a working example, please

I need to forward(relay) mail from one postfix server to another, so that they are "answerable" with the same address as the original ones. Also, I need all mail from accounts on server 2 which are ...
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In Postfix, how do I block sending emails to other domains while allowing forwarding of one email address?

I just installed PostFix on Cent OS 7. I want to set up mail forwarding from an admin address to my Gmail account but I also want to block all emails that are sent to emails that are not addressed to ...
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How do I set up an MX record to route mail to my CentOS 7 Postfix server?

I'm trying to set up mail forwarding from my CentOS Postfix mail server to my gmail account and I want to be sure I'm creating the MX records properly before troubleshooting my PostFix configuration. ...
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re-forward mails already IN mailbox using qmail

I broke my qmail formwarding rule for quite a month, and incoming mails now are in my default mailbox instead of being forwarded to &another|mail-adddress.com. Is there a way to re-forward all ...
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Can sendmail forward e-mail immediately instead of queueing?

Some of the e-mail passing through my server is forwarded to external accounts. Unfortunately, my upstream SMTP-server is very picky about spam -- and rejects some of the legitimate messages as such. ...
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How to make sendmail respect +-notation for virtual users?

I have different forwarding needs for different domains, which all point to my mail-server: user1@example.com foo@example.org user2@example.com bar@example.net @example.com mylocalaccount ...
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Exchange: Forward copy of all received emails to another internal server

We need send all emails coming into exchange into another server, which will process them for metadata, while also delivering the email to the internal mailboxes. Does anyone know how to accomplish ...
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