Email forwarding destinations
This table of fields determines what happens to email sent to this user.
Normally, it would be delivered directly to the user’s mailbox, but if any
destinations are defined here, they will be used instead. This can be used to
set up an autoresponder if the user is away, or to forward their email to an
address on another server.
Each destination has a type (chosen from the menu), which can be one of the
following :
- Email address
Email will be forwarded to the address entered in the adjacent field.
- Addresses in file
Email will be forwarded to all of the addresses listed in the text file
whose path is entered in the adjacent field.
- Write to file
Email to the alias will appended to the specified file. All headers and
the raw un-decoded body will be included.
- Feed to program
The program entered in the adjacent field will be executed and email to
the alias passed to it as input.
- Autoreply from file
When email is received by the user, and automatic reply message will be
sent back to the sender. The text of this autoreply will be taken from the
file entered in the adjacent text field.
- Apply filter file
Email sent to the user will be processed according to the rules in the
specified filter file, which may cause it to be forwarded to other
addresses or files depending on the actual contents of the message.
- Mailbox of user
Email will be delivered directly to the mailbox of the user entered in
the adjacent text field. Typically, you would enter the name of the user
themselves, so they receive a copy of the email in addition to it being
forwarded to any other destinations. However, you must enter the full POP3
login username, like joe.foo instead of just joe.
If you choose the Addresses in file, Autoreply from file or
Apply filter file destination types, when you re-edit
the users links labelled Edit.. will appear next to any such destinations
for editing the contents of the specified file.