Forward email does not work

JohnMan · March 8, 2023, 1:52pm

I am trying to forward all incoming emails but it seems that it is not possible.
I follow the following steps.
I have tested my account for derivability and it sends emails to the specific account. then

From Virtualmin

Does does not deliver locally.

I have also tried from Usermin

I get the forward but not the local
If I uncheck the Forward to other address then it delivers locally.

Then I have configured it at Filters and Forwarding Mail

But in order to achieve it I had to allow mailbox users to create mail filters

which I do not want to do for all my clients.
Only with these settings it can function as it should.

stefan1959 · March 8, 2023, 8:56pm

Work fine with my system on screenshot 1 only. It deliverers locally and forwards. Not sure what Spamassin got to do with it.

JohnMan · March 9, 2023, 3:00pm

Do you have spamassassin disabled ?

dimitrist · March 9, 2023, 3:22pm

can you post maillog of a email that doesn’t deliver eitherway?

works fine here btw, but in general “forwarding” should be considered bad practice and avoided.

JohnMan · March 10, 2023, 6:36am

My clients using this practice for more than a decade. I cannot refuse it since exist in all major CPs.
But since it exist, it should work too.

dimitrist · March 10, 2023, 11:47am

functionality does work as i wrote, but recipient mail servers might block forwarding email, since it messes with various mail protection practices.

JohnMan · March 15, 2023, 2:16pm

It works with the same servers as using “Filters and Forwarding Mail” and also worked before in a Plesk server.

HighLive · March 28, 2023, 1:50am

I have the exact same problem with ubuntu 22.04.2 and latest Virtualmin 7.5 and Webmin 2.021.

See … Some e-mails bounced with unknown user but are forwarded

The filter option in Usermin works as a workaround. Thank you for that.

Also if you add a forwarder in usermin ‘mail forwarding and Replies’ ->’ Forward to another address’ → Yes, forward to my@gmail.com. The mail is not delivered and not forwarded, sender gets a message from MAILER-DAEMON that the message could not be delivered with the reason ’ too many hops’

Not normal behavior i guess ?