email redirect

[ngrayson]

Guys,

In order to make me give up my Vpop3 mail server and use the wingate one which I would like, there are a few things I need it to do.

1) duplicate incoming messages for specified users to say a postmaster account (I think from poking around this can be done).
2) forwarrd all emails on one account to an extenal account on say google. (not using the above). i.e.
3) Redirect with rules, an email from one incoming user to a group.

I've had a poke around and I believe item 1 is possibel but I can find any redirect or distribution capabilities for 2 & 3,

Are any of the above possible?

Best regards
Neil

[adrien]

Hi Neil

Most routing and handling of mail in WinGate relates to a destination email address rather than an account or user.

Email addresses - if the associated mailbox is hosted by WinGate - are mapped to a local account, but otherwise (e.g. if you're just specifying extra handling on an address but not hosting it) it's not.

So when you use the terms users, accounts etc, in WinGate it's really only possible to do some of those things on an address by address basis - e.g a user could have many addresses, so if you wanted to copy all mail for any human user to another address, you'd need to edit the address handlers for each email address that user has.

Anyway, you can do 1, by setting up a handler for each address you want duplicates for, and specify to also deliver to a specifed address.

2 is the the same as 1? Or do you mean forward the contents of an existing inbox to some address (e.g. a utility).

redirecting by sender isn't supported. Also we don't do any routing based on source address, so you don't get special handling based on the source address (apart from policy which can allow or block).

WinGate does support lists though... but that's based on recipient address, i.e. a mail TO an address is distributed to members of the list, rather than a mail FROM an address being distributed.

I'd never considered someone would want to send all mail from someone to a list :)

WinGate 7 new policy system should be able to do much of this once I hook it up to the WinGate email server.

Regards

Adrien

[ngrayson]

Many thanks for the response.

I'll sit down and think about how I can map what I do today to Wingate mail.

Best Regards
Neil