mail forwarding

[Tifosi]

Hi,
I'm new here to bluehost.com. Can you tell me, how to set up mail forwarding? When any mail comes to my mailbox, I'd like to automaticaly forward copy of this message to another email address - mobile phone, to let me know about it.
I didn't find any similar solution yet on this forum...

[Early Out]

Login to cPanel, choose Email Manager, Forwarders, Add Forwarder. That will let you forward messages to another account, but it doesn't look like there's an easy way to forward a copy, i.e., to have the message still get delivered to the original addressee, as well as to the forwarding address.

Anyone else have any bright ideas?

[Tifosi]

Login to cPanel, choose Email Manager, Forwarders, Add Forwarder. That will let you forward messages to another account, but it doesn't look like there's an easy way to forward a copy, i.e., to have the message still get delivered to the original addressee, as well as to the forwarding address.

Anyone else have any bright ideas?

Yes, I've tried this... but it forwarded email to another address without leaving original on server :c/

[techgy]

I think you can set up a pop3 account on BH and forward mail from there.
A copy would also remain on the server at BH.

Just a thought.

:rolleyes:

[StrongBad]

If you set two addresses to forward to each other, and sent an e-mail to one of them, what would happen?

[techgy]

If you set two addresses to forward to each other, and sent an e-mail to one of them, what would happen?

Shudder the thought. I've not attempted this but I suspect that you'd either fill up your mail box rather quickly or else be very unpopular with the administrator.

Not something I'd wish to attempt.

:(

[StrongBad]

I wouldn't dream of it. Though I have a feeling the software might trap it. If a forwarded e-mail counts as a sent e-mail, then it would stop after 50 bounces on Bluehost due to the max of 50 per hour.

[lrbaldwin]

Login to cPanel, choose Email Manager, Forwarders, Add Forwarder. That will let you forward messages to another account, but it doesn't look like there's an easy way to forward a copy, i.e., to have the message still get delivered to the original addressee, as well as to the forwarding address.

Anyone else have any bright ideas?

Yes, there's a simple way to accomplish this. Set up one more email account at BH.
Acct 1: Your original BH email account from which you want to forward the mail to some outside address.
Acct 2: A new BH email account to which you also forward the mail from your original BH email account.

So acct 1 will always be empty (because the email was forwarded)
and acct 2 will contain all the mail that was addressed to acct 1.

Linda

[bboysteele]

Ya! What Linda said. :)

[ds4081]

All you have to do is make sure you have an account with the same name as the forward.

--DS