Pseudonym-addresses Most domain name hosting facilities provide facilities to forward mail to another email address such as a mailbox at the user's Internet Service Provider there are also separate providers of mail forwarding services. An organization may forward messages intended for a given role to the address of the person(s) currently functioning in that role or office. Uses of server-based forwarding to different recipients Role-addresses info, sales, postmaster, and similar names can appear to the left of in email addresses. īecause of spam, it is becoming increasingly difficult to reliably forward mail across different domains, and some recommend avoiding it if at all possible. Protocol engineers sometimes use the term Mediator to refer to a forwarding server. ~/.forward files (see below) provide a typical example of server-based forwarding to different recipients.Įmail administrators sometimes use the term redirection as a synonym for server-based email-forwarding to different recipients.
By contrast, primary servers can deliver a message to a user's mailbox and/or forward it by changing some envelope addresses. A domain may also define backup servers they have no mailboxes and forward messages without changing any part of their envelopes. The domain name (the part appearing to the right of in an email address) defines the target server(s) įor the corresponding class of addresses. 4 Commercial products facilitating mail forward.3 Historical development of email forwarding.1.1 Uses of server-based forwarding to different recipients.