Hello LinuxQuestions,
So far, this has been a great forum, and most of the solutions to my configuration problems have come from here, and I'm glad that I seldom (if ever) observe any trolling or n00b-bashing here
I am posting this thread because I am trouble even phrasing the question I have in a way that Google will understand that I'm not looking for a basic email server configuration tutorial, but rather a solution (if any) to a very specific configuration problem, so I will provide two examples: the first being the ideal outcome I expect to achieve, the second being the way things are actually working.
Ideally, I could have email forwarded
from service@somewhere.net to user1@somewhere.net,
user2@someplace.org, etc. Then, from Webmail or a Mail User Agent like Outlook or Thunderbird, user3 can actually send and receive mail from
service@somewhere.net like a regular email account. Ideally, incomming messages are duplicated and forwarded to several recipients, but
service@somewhere.net can still be accessed as a standard user mailbox.
Currently, after the forwarding process
from service@somewhere.net to user1@somewhere.net and
user2@someplace.org, user3 gets receives nothing from webmail or the MUA. In effect,
service@somewhere.net seems to function exclusively as an alias used for forwarding emails to other recipients or as a standard email recipient, but not both.
Is there any graceful settings or well-known configurations for this type of functionality, or am I going to have to hack the server to pieces with work-arounds?