Email forwarding

[Barbouille]

Hi

Let us say that I setup an email address on my domain ie: me@mydomain.com with a size capacity of 10 MB (I chose a small size box purposely for illustration purposes).

Obviously, this should fill up quickly. Now, say that I have a forwarder on this email box to a Yahoo or Gmail account (it does not matter).

Now, for whatever reason, I do not pick up my mail at me@mydomain.com. All incoming emails will be forwarded to me@yahoo.com or me@Gmail.com and the messages will accumulate in my mailbox at me@mydomain.com

The question is:
When the mailbox is full, will the forwarder continue to forward the mail to Yahoo or Gmail or will the messages addressed to me@domain.com be returned to the sender ? I ask this question because I know that you can setup a forwarder without setting up an actual mailbox and the forwarder works fine. So, in theory, in my example, the forwarder should continue to do its work (the forwarding).

What is your opinion on this ?

[alemcherry]

As far as I know, cpanel forwarder will not keep the original, so the question of space filling up doesnt arise. You may verify this by actually setting up one.

[Early Out]

As far as I know, cpanel forwarder will not keep the original, so the question of space filling up doesnt arise. You may verify this by actually setting up one.I don't believe that's correct. If the email address exists, the originals are kept, and need to be cleared out periodically. That's the advantage of setting up the forwarder on a nonexistant email address - the originals don't accumulate anywhere.

Now, what happens when the mailbox fills up? I'm guessing, and it is just a guess, that messages get bounced back to the senders. It might also produce a split result, where the message does, indeed, get forwarded, but the sender also gets a bounce message about the mailbox being full (I've seen things like this on other mail systems).

It's a tough thing to test, but you could set the limit very low, and send some messages with some large attachments (like image files) that would fill it up quickly.

[Barbouille]

The forwarding does not work folks. I tested it out as per Early Out suggestion and here is the message I got:

Reporting-MTA: dns;bay0-omc2-s9.bay0.hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:57:32 -0700

Final-Recipient: rfc822;omitted purposely for security reasons
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 Mailbox quota exceeded

So, we have our answer. Thanks to all

Regards

[Early Out]

Thanks for doing the test - useful information!