Forwarding from your internal box works fine. The problem is that your
external box is not matching correctly. Have a look at your
virtusertable.... If its like mine, it will have something like
admin (at mark) localhost.localdomain admin
In other words, the admin account on my box is locally significant....
When you have a catchall address, this matches before the "admin" user.
There are a few ways to fix this... One easy way to test this theory is
to try forwarding to another user account on the box.... If it is
delivered correctly, you could have another forward file for this user
to send to "admin" or "admin (at mark) localhost.localdomain"
Hope that helps
Best Regards,
Greg Kuhnert.
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Linux-Gnome wrote:
> I need a bit of assistance with a configuration problem I have, please
> bear with me as I am a bit of a Linux novice although learning as fast
> as I can.
>
> I have two boxes (call them Internal and external for simplicity). The
> external box hosts my main web pages and is the mail server, the
> internal box is where I do test work and do most of my fiddling (and
> learning). I am wanting to forward system mail messages created by my
> internal server to my admin account on the external box and have set
> up the mail forwarding in the Internal box's admin account to forward
> mail to my external box.
>
> The forwarding partially works as the mail gets to my external box but
> ends up in my catch all mail box rather than the admin box.
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I might be doing wrong ?
>
> Regards
>
>
> Gnome