Email Forwarding

Email Forwarding:  Allows you to configure any particular email address at to automatically forward to another valid Internet address. For example, you might want all email sent to president@ to forward to the email address of your company president. Any email addresses that are not explicitly set to forward to another email address or designated as a POP box are handled by the Default Email Forwarding Address. See Email Basics for more information.

Any email addresses that are not explicitly set to forward to another email address or designated as a POP box are handled by the Default Email Forwarding Address.

To configure Email Forwarding for an address at , select the Email Settings button in your Control Panel. In the Mail Forwarding section of the Email Settings screen, use the field provided to list which address at you wish to forward as well as and the Internet email address to which you would like it to be forwarded to.

For example, If your default forwarding address is user@aol.com, but you want sales@ to forward to user@compuserve.com, your mail forwarding options would look like so:

All e-mail not specifically forwarded will be sent to:
 
@yourdomain Forwards to:

Unwanted Email:  As you know, each Sunsol domain includes a Master Pop Account or Master Forwarding Address as a catch all address which can be used to catch all mail or improperly addressed mail to that account. Many of you have, however, expressed concern due to the amount of SPAM email caught at some domains by this address.

In response to this we have created a new "waste basket" email address to which unwanted email may be forwarded. Any email forwarded to this address will be discarded and irretrievable. You may use this address as a useful way to rid yourself of unwanted solicitations, SPAM email which bog down your email downloads.

To discard unwanted mail, simply forward that mail to:

devnull@<your_domain>    (substitute "<your_domain>" with your account's domain name)

Mail forwarded to this "waste basket" address at your domain will be discarded from the mail system at the moment of forwarding. This is far superior to forwarding to nonexistent address - such action will cause repeated failed delivery attempts that can bog down mail delivery in general.

Please use this address carefully as once mail has been delivered to this address, it is completely irretrievable.

**Please ensure that devnull@<your_domain> is used as opposed to any other combination including devnull to ensure that proper "waste basket" delivery of mail occurs and additional failed delivery attempts do not occur.

 

*** Important Notes ***

  • Do not list addresses that forward to your Default Email Forwarding Address. Doing this would be redundant since addresses that are not specifically listed will automatically forward to the Default Email Forwarding Address.
  • Make sure that you do not create forwarding addresses that end up forwarding back to themselves. Doing so can create email loops which can be extremely wasteful of system resources and cause a loss of mail.
  • List only one e-mail address within each box. Attempting to forward mail to more than one address (e.g. Forwards to: bill@aaaa.com, bob@aaaa.com, barb@bbbb.net) may cause problems. The E-mail Settings interface is NOT configured to handle multiple forwarding addresses.
  • Do not remove the default mail forwarding address unless you want to retrieve email from the Master POP Account.