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PerthMETRO
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« on: July 08, 2006, 03:47:21 AM »

When Lp says 'included' do they mean free included or included but cost you?

Do LP have 'catch all' email forwarding? ie if any unnominated email address turns up then it goes to a nominated address

Email Features     
POP3    Included
SMTP    Included
IMAP    Included
Email Accounts    Unlimited
Email Forwarding    Unlimited
Email Auto Responders    Unlimited
Web Mail    2 types Included
Mailing List    Included
Spam Protection    Included
Catch-All Address    Included
E-Commerce Features    
osCommerce Shopping Cart    Included
Cube Cart Shopping Cart    Included
Zen Cart Shopping Cart    Included
Password Protected Directories    Included
OpenPGP / GPG Encryption    Included
Shared SSL Certificate
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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2006, 03:51:09 AM »

included means it is included in the cost.

available means you can have it at an extra cost.
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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2006, 09:30:00 AM »

Do LP have 'catch all' email forwarding? ie if any unnominated email address turns up then it goes to a nominated address

Yes, on both Linux and Windows, there is a default address option in the Mail area.  The default address would be configurable to :blackhole: (emails that go to non-existent accounts are rejected), :fail: (emails that go to non-existent accounts are bounced back), and anyemail@anydomain.com.  The third one would mean any email address you want to receive the emails sent to any  non-existent email addresses on your account, this setting would receive them.  Replace anyemail with the username and anydomain.com with the domain name for the email address.  Please note the email address set as the default does not even have to be on your account, but could be a gmail, yahoo, or other email address that you would like to receive all these emails.

I have to note, however, that setting the address to a real one to get all these emails to non-existing accounts is a bad idea.  Spammers like to hit domains with bunches of emails to non-existing accounts.  It happens all the time and you will end up with a bunch of spam emails in the email account you set as the default.  It would be far better to set the default to :fail: (this is already the default setting for the default address for new accounts) and create real accounts for ones you need in the Mail area.

Please note you can also create forwarders for email accounts you don't create in the Mail area.  The benefit of creating a forwarder in this manner would be to cut down on emails you receive.  Let's say you want to have an account called support@myaddondomain.com forward to support@mydomain.com, but you do not want to ever have to check the email for support@myaddondomain.com.  You would simply create a forwarder in your Mail area's Forwarders section:

support@myaddondomain.com > support@mydomain.com

Then all emails will route to support@mydomain.com so long as you do not create an email account for support@myaddondomain.com.  If you did create an account for support@myaddondomain.com, you would get 2 copies of every message, one arriving to support@myaddondomain.com and one forwarding from it to support@mydomain.com

Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.

Have a Blessed Weekend
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