iRedMail forwarding emails

Set mail forwarding with SQL command line

Let’s say you have an existing mail user user@domain.com, and you want to forward all received emails to another address forward@example.com, to achieve this, you can login to SQL server and update vmail database like below:

USE vmail;
INSERT INTO forwardings (address,
                         forwarding,
                         domain,
                         dest_domain,
                         is_forwarding,
                         active)
                 VALUES ('user@domain.com',
                         'forward@example.com',
                         'domain.com',
                         'example.com',
                         1,
                         1);

If you want to forward email to multiple addresses, please create more records like above:

USE vmail;

-- Forwarding to address 'forward-2@example.com'
INSERT INTO forwardings (address,
                         forwarding,
                         domain,
                         dest_domain,
                         is_forwarding,
                         active)
                 VALUES ('user@domain.com',
                         'forward-2@example.com',
                         'domain.com',
                         'example.com',
                         1,
                         1);

-- Forwarding to address 'forward-3@example.com'
INSERT INTO forwardings (address,
                         forwarding,
                         domain,
                         dest_domain,
                         is_forwarding,
                         active)
                 VALUES ('user@domain.com',
                         'forward-3@example.com',
                         'domain.com',
                         'example.com',
                         1,
                         1);

To save a copy of forwarded email in mailbox, please add your own email address as a forwarding destination like below:

This SQL record exists by default, but it’s a good idea to make sure it exists. If it exists, you will get error like ERROR 1062 (23000): Duplicate entry 'user@domain.com-user@domain.com' for key 'address', don’t panic.

INSERT INTO forwardings (address,
                         forwarding,
                         domain,
                         dest_domain,
                         is_forwarding,
                         active)
                 VALUES ('user@domain.com',
                         'user@domain.com',
                         'domain.com',
                         'domain.com',
                         1,
                         1);