[thelist] hosting and email question

[Mark Groen]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz" <>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: [thelist] hosting and email question


> .....I have some clients who just forward their email to aol or
> gmail or whatever and they never actually log in to the host for
> their mail and the mail ends up accumulating on the
> server. ...eventually overloading the server.
> ...........
> However these clients don't log in with a pop3 so the mail does not
> get removed.
>
> What am I missing in setting this up?  How do I set it up so that
> mail does not accumulate on the server?
> thanks for your help,

Don't create a POP account for them, you just need the forwarder if they
aren't going to be picking it up. The mail server doesn't need a POP
mail account with the same name to do forwarding, just the forwarder.
(iow, delete the POP accounts).

cheers,

        Mark