CIRR.COM Web Hosting Support Email Forwarding

Forwarding email from your domain

CIRR supports a very basic form of email forwarding for your domain.

It is called simple because it only supports a one to one mapping of email addresses from your domain to a recipient address. No multi-address expansion is provided.

The file containing your forwarding instructions is in the top level directory of your web service account. It is named aliases, and is a simple ASCII (plain) text file.

Comments are delimited by a leading # (hash) character.

All other lines are treated as email addresses. The left hand side is the address in your domain, and the right hand side is the address to which should receive the forwarded email. White space (spaces, tabs) should separate the fields.

On the left hand side, all the addresses should include your domain name. Don't forget to include the catch all line.

An example aliases file is:

#
#	$Id: Mailforwarding.html,v 1.3 2010/06/13 03:34:05 cirr Stable $
#	email forwarding template/example
#
#	to forward email for your domain, make entries like to the
#	following: (with out the leading hash mark/number sign/octothorpe)
#
#	lines starting with a # sign are considered comments
#	everything from the # sign to the end of line is ignored.
#
#	someone,othername are email addresses at your domain,
#	someone@aol.com, othername@msn.com, etc are address where
#	the mail is to be delivered.
#
#	someone@yourdomain.com		someone@aol.com
#	othername@yourdomain.com	othername@msn.com
#	# catch all
#	@yourname.com			error:550 User Unknown
#	# or
#	@yourname.com			someone@earthlink.net
#
someone@yourdomain.com		someone@aol.com
othername@yourdomain.com	othername@msn.com
# catch all
@yourname.com			error:550 User Unknown

To update the aliases, the following steps are a good process:

1. Download the file via ftp (in ASCII mode) to your local workstation.
2. Make the modifications using your favorite text editor.
3. Update the file via ftp (in ASCII mode) to the top level directory of your web service account.