My apologies if this message is double posted, but I neglected to send  
it from the correct e-mail address, and I assumed that this would mean  
it would be rejected.

I have a server that runs DirectAdmin running Exim 4.60.

My question pertains to e-mail forwarders.  I tried to resolve the  
issue on DirectAdmin's forums but it seemed to be out of the scope of  
those forums.

The issue I am experiencing is that many of my clients have e-mail  
forwarders setup for their domains.  My server will receive an e-mail  
message, then redirect it to their forwarded e-mail address.  What has  
happened quite often is that their forwarded e-mail address is  
filtered by Barracuda servers.   If the original message is then  
detected as spam by their Barracuda servers, *my* server is then  
flagged as a source of spam, which eventually causes all e-mails sent  
my any of my clients to be filtered/blocked by any Barracuda servers.

My question is basically this: is there any way to prevent this?   
Whether it is somehow "silently" redirecting the message (without  
leaving any record that my server touched it), or some other way of  
basically not having my server appearing to be the spam source?   
Otherwise, I feel my only other solution is to simply disable forwards  
altogether, as having to constantly reset my Barracuda "reputation" is  
annoying to me, but also very inconvenient to my clients who wonder  
why their e-mails do not get through.

This is how the forward is setup by DirectAdmin:

virtual_aliases_nostar:
  driver = redirect
  allow_defer
  allow_fail
  data = ${if exists{/etc/virtual/${domain}/aliases}{$ 
{lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/virtual/${domain}/aliases}}}}
  file_transport = address_file
  group = mail
  pipe_transport = virtual_address_pipe
  retry_use_local_part

/etc/virtual/domain.com/aliases is a file that contains the forwarded  
e-mail addresses.  I'm not sure if this setup makes references to  
other parts of the configuration — I'm not an Exim expert in any sense  
of the word, so if someone needs additional items from my exim.conf,  
please let me know.

Thanks for any help.

-Andrew
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