How to create email forwarding to another email on CentOS by postfix?

Posted October 30, 2014

How to create email forwarding to another email on CentOS by postfix? I do not understand how to do it. What records in DNS, configs files? Is there a step by step tutorial? All that I found via google did not help me. Please help me. Thanks.

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Koppie • January 30, 2015

postfix. Here are a couple excellent tutorials on the subject: http://www.andreagrandi.it/2014/08/31/getting-started-with-digital-ocean-vps-configuring-dns-and-postfix-for-email-forwarding/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bsd-postfix-forward-email-to-another-account/

JonsJava • October 30, 2014

are you hosting multiple domains’ email on your server, or do you have it configured so system accounts (accounts that are in /etc/passwd) can receive mail only?

If the latter, edit /etc/aliases, and set up an alias

Here’s a simple guide for that