Re: [cobalt-users] Forwarding to external recipient

["Alan Stanley" <alanst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting. It actually worked.

So to do this, I have to point the email to the mail server and not the
domain.com only?

It works but one would think domain.com would suffice.

Any possible way around this so everytime I need to forward mail to an
external address, I don't need to find out their server's mail domain?
Perhaps a setting or a configuration file needs adjusted?

 - alan -
----- Original Message -----
From: John C. Bacon <bacon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Forwarding to external recipient


Alan,

I don't know if this will work, but have you tried forwarding to
@xxx.yahoo.com, where xxx= the mail server and not just @yahoo.com?


John C. Bacon
Eyecool </Media>
http://www.eyecool.com/
The Internet and Multimedia Firm
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Stanley <alanst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 10:13 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Forwarding to external recipient


> Greetings,
>
> I have a RAQ3i. For one of the name-based sites, I have set up a user
> account.
>
> Let's call the domain: domain2.com
> and the user: bob
>
> Let's also call the main domain on the machine: domain1.com
> and a user on that domain: fred
>
> Here's what I CAN do (not both at the same time, mind you):
>
> * send email to bob@xxxxxxxxxxx and have the email go into bob's mailbox
> * forward bob's mail to fred@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Here's what I CAN NOT do:
>
> forward bob's mail to bob's external yahoo email account: bob@xxxxxxxxx
>
> To make it simple, I'm try to set up a user account and have email to that
> user automatically forwards to their separate ISP email account. If I
leave
> the forwarding box alone, all works well. If I forward the mail to a user
on
> the server (doesn't matter which domain the user belongs to), it works
well.
> My problem is forwarding mail sent to a user automatically to an external
> email address.
>
> If I attempt this, I can the email bounced back:
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> bob@xxxxxxxxx
>     (expanded from: <bob@xxxxxxxxxxx>)
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx Host unknown (Name server: yahoo.com: host not found)
>
>
> Any ideas why this server would not forward mail to an outside address?
> Where do I start looking?
>
> Regards,
>
>  - alan -
>
>
>
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