Setup email forwarding roundcube

Open Webmail — CentOS 4 and 5 Open Webmail is a reliable webmail application used by many eApps customers because of its ease of use and small resource footprint. One important feature of OpenWebMail is that it allows users to change their password. Majordomo with Auto-Responder — CentOS 4 and 5 Majordomo is a mailing list application that also provides auto-responder functionality for mail boxes.

This application is integrated with the Control Panel, making it easy to use. The Majordomo User Guide has more information on setting up and using this application.

In CentOS 5, both can be installed. There will be a Mailing Lists link in this section. Mailman — CentOS 4 and 5 Mailman is a mailing list manager. It provides its own web interface for managing the mailing lists. Mailman is newer than Majordomo, and unlike Majordomo, is still currently being updated. The Mailman User Guide has information and instructions on setting up and using this application. Mailman requires more work on the front end to setup and configure, but is easier to use in the long run.

Click on Mailman, and there will be a URL listed to access the default setup. Please read the User Guide first as there are some specifics to our Mailman application that you need to be aware of before starting to use the application. The following are the older spam and anti-virus tools offered by eApps. If you are using SpamExperts, you do not need to install any of these applications. SpamExperts does a better job at spam and anti-virus filtering, and does all the work off your VPS, saving you valuable system resources.

Please see the Fighting Junk mail User Guide for more information on these legacy applications. SpamAssassin - This package, along with the smtp-vilter application, is used to mark spam received on the VPS and deliver that to your inbox.

It is very resource intensive, and can cause a lot of resource problems on the smaller Standard plans. Once installed it will scan incoming messages for virus threats. Unless you need to scan your file system for viruses ClamAV is not needed, and will consume a lot of memory and CPU power without adding any benefit. Greylist Filter — Greylist filter works by rejecting the first message sent to you from an unknown sender. After that initial delay, the message and all other messages from this person are passed on to your inbox.

This works because this behavior is standard among all RFC compliant mail servers. Spammers generally do not use compliant mail servers, and so their messages will not be sent again. There are two ways to receive e-mail on your VPS — mailboxes and mail forwarding. A mailbox is used when you want the mail server to retain messages for you to access using a standalone e-mail client such as Outlook, or Thunderbird or from a webmail application such as Open Webmail or Squirrelmail.

Mail forwarding configures the mail server to receive the e-mail, and then immediately forward it to another e-mail account, either on your VPS or to an external mail server, such as Gmail or Yahoo. Then, scroll down to Mail Management, and then Mailboxes. This is where you can add mailboxes or manage existing mailboxes. To create a new mailbox, click on Add Mailbox. The user name has to be in lower case letters, can use the digits 0 — 9 and can only be a maximum of 40 characters.

There are ways around the 40 character limit, but they are non-trivial to implement. If you really need to have an e-mail address where the user name is over 40 characters, please contact eApps Support. The second part of the E-mail field is the domain part of the e-mail address. This is a drop down menu where you can choose any domain that exists on your VPS, or set the user up as an multiple domains user.

There are differences between the two approaches, which are discussed below. You will be forced into setting a difficult password, and this feature cannot be changed or altered. This is for your protection.. Retype the password to verify. If you have Majordomo with Autoresponder installed, you can configure your Autoresponder here.

If not, or if you do not want to configure the Autoresponder at this time, just click Finish. Please note — eApps Support will never know what your password is. The passwords are encrypted in the Control Panel database, and we cannot recover them or see them.

If we have to ask you for your password, what we will usually do is ask you to login to the Control Panel, and put your password in the Description field for the mailbox.

That keeps you from having to send your password to us in an unencrypted format in an e-mail or ticket. To manage an existing mailbox, simply click on the mailbox itself. There you can change the password, and if the Autoresponder program is installed, you can turn it off or on and change the Autoresponder message. To delete an existing mailbox, click on the red X to the far right of the mailbox name in the Maiboxes section of the Control Panel. Note that deleting the mailbox also deletes any e-mail currently stored in that inbox.

Then, scroll down to Mail Management, and then Mail Forwarding. This is where you can add mail forwarding rules or manage existing mail forwarding rules. To create a new forwarding rule, click on Add Forwarding Rule.

In the E-mail field, enter either an e-mail user that already exists on the VPS in the Mailboxes section, or specify a new user this new user will only exist as a mail forward. Then choose the domain to match the e-mail user from the drop down menu, or if you are creating a new user that will only exist as a mail forward, choose the appropriate domain from the drop down menu. In the Forward to a local mailbox es section, choose a mailbox or mailboxes on the VPS to forward this e-mail to.

Note — you cannot choose the same e-mail address as the mail forward you are trying to create. This will result in this error message when you try to click Save: You tried to set up a mail forward that creates a mail loop. This action is not allowed. See below for more information on this. For issues concerning the software itself, there are several ways to get help on questions about Roundcube, its installation, configuration and ongoing development.

Please choose from the following:. To get additional information on how to set up Roundcube and to find out what all those config parameters are good for, our Wiki will help. Get help at our web-based message board. Different topics like Issues and Bugs, Feature Requests as well as general discussions about the project can be found here: roundcubeforum. Please also check our bug tracker for already reported and discussed bugs and feature requests.

If you have general questions, comments, or suggestions please send them to our mailing lists. The following mailing lists are available for this project:. Read-only list with announcements like new versions, security bugs and more. Moderated by the project administrator. Discussion of the ongoing development and next steps. The last step of the installation process is to configure the database so Roundcube can store its app-specific data.

Before we can go through that setup, we need to prepare the database. Connect to the MySQL interactive shell. Create the database first. This command creates a database called roundcubemail and then provides database options, like the character set to use utf8.

This command creates a user called roundcube and defines that user to connect from localhost. For applications accessing a database, defining where the user will make the request from helps tighten security. Give the roundcube user all permissions on the roundcubemail database and all of its tables. We have created a blank database, roundcubemail , and a user, roundcube localhost , and then gave that user full permissions to the database.

Now we need to set up the structure of the database so Roundcube knows where to save its information. Roundcube helpfully provides a link for any missing dependency so you can figure out what to install. Once everything is set up correctly, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the NEXT button. The form on the next page, which is broken into seven sections, walks through generating the Roundcube configuration file. Below are the portions of the form we need to fill out, divided by section.

If a line from the form is excluded in the sections below, you can skip that line and leave it with the default settings. The General configuration section provides a few cosmetic options for customization and some general settings. Roundcube uses MySQL to store the information for running the web client not your emails. In this section, you need to tell Roundcube how to access the database that you set up in Step 4. Because this tutorial uses Gmail as an example, the Gmail settings are included below, but if you have your own email provider, they should provide you with the details you need.

Most email providers support connections with or without encryption. The SMTP server is the part of email that sends emails. Below are a good set of defaults you can install. All plugins are optional, i. Take a look at the descriptions for each plugin and install whichever you like. This just pre-configures Roundcube with these plugins. If not, go back and double check what you entered. This will prevent someone else to generate a new config and override the correct settings.

With Roundcube, you can have the feature set and appearance of a native desktop client with the flexibility of a webmail client. You can do this by following How to Secure Roundcube on Ubuntu In addition, you can install new themes to enhance the look of your client and plugins to add new functionality.