Creating email forward with new "To"

Thomas Ravkilde

• January 15, 2016 11:50

Hi there I need to set up an email forwarder that doesn't just redirect the message but replaces the "To" field with the new recipient also. I need this because a script does something at the last stop based on the text in the "To" field. Is this possible? Thanks in advance! /Thomas

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 15, 2016 17:29

  Hello :) Do you have root access to this server? If so, you could configure a system filter rule that modifies the header: How to Customize the Exim System Filter File - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation Here's a third-party URL where this is discussed: While Mail Forwarding with exim, how do I rewrite the To header with true destination address Thank you.

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  Thomas Ravkilde

  • January 15, 2016 21:37

  Do you have root access to this server? If so, you could configure a system filter rule that modifies the header:

  
  Thanks for the links. No, no root access unfortunately. It's a rented web hotel. I guess I could perhaps redirect the mail to a perl script that does the replacement and then sends the email again, but I don't have experience with that so was hoping for an easy solution ;)

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 18, 2016 14:54

  It's not possible to force Exim into rewriting the message header without root access, but feel free to post to the Exim user's mailing list to see if anyone else has done this through a custom script: Exim-users Info Page Thank you.

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