Postfix Not Forwarding All Mail?
I have a number of email addresses setup to forward to my gmail account. For example, i have
I followed the linode document for setting up email with postfix and MySQL. Then I added a record to the forwardings table. I don't know if there are additional steps or not. I don't know enough about email and email servers to get it working properly (or diagnose the issue). Are there some steps I can take to diagnose my issue?
Thanks.
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(Or, open the file, see the last lines, then send the email again, and read the ones that has been added since.
Paste them here.
Also, common caveat: If you send an email from gmail to a forwarder (or chain of forwarders) that'll in the end send it back to the originating gmail account, it'll disappear. I don't think there's official explaination for this, but the common guess is that they checksum the message, and "realize" a copy of it is already there (in your sent items box), so throw away the duplicate silently.
Never try to send test emails like this:
Use
I think part of it may be what you described in the caveat. One of my test emails was being sent from the GMail account that it was being forwarded too.
Thanks.