The .domains file
Tutorial
Maintaining
This tutorial is for all
of our customers who have run into the ".domains nightmare" in the
past.
The following is the basic format for the .domains
file:
RECEIVING_ADDRESS [spc] FORWARDING_ADDRESS
And now a working example:
info@hostcentric.com # jshaver@hostcentric.com jshaver mark@hostcentric.com somewhere@somewhere.com me@hostcentric.com you@there.com default@hostcentric.com default hostcentric.com default |
So in this example any mail sent to
info@hostcentric.com will be forwarded to MReply. The "#" tells the mail
program to forward any mail to MReply.
Mail sent to
jshaver@hostcentric.com will be forwarded to local user "jshaver". The
means that jshaver has a POP account set up so we want his mail to go to
that account.
Mail going to mark@hostcentric.com will be forwarded to
somewhere@somewhere.com. The same goes for me@hostcentric.com. Since
users "mark" and "me" don't have local POP accounts then we must
forward their mail to a real e-mail address.
Now, these last 2 lines are
important. "default" is the default username that you gave when
you set the account up. That is the user that has ownership of the directory.
Any mail going to default@hostcentric.com is going to be sent to
default's local POP account. The last line is the "catch-all". This means
that any unrecognized mail will automatically be sent to user "default".
So if you were to send mail to lamer@hostcentric.com it would automatically be
forwarded to "default" because there is no entry in the .domains file for
lamer.
You can have as many forwardings as you like but keep in mind that
if we forward mark@hostcentric.com to somewhere@somewhere.com, the
somewhere account must be a valid account at
somewhere.com
Suppose you want to have mail sent to
foo@bar.com to 2 places. This is how you would do it:
foo@bar.com tom@netcom.net,tim@earthlink.com |
So mail sent to foo@bar.com will be forwarded to both tom@netcom.net
AND tim@netcom.com. A few things that are VERY IMPORTANT: