When e-mail comes in, even if it is forwarded, it is stored in the Spool temporarily. It's a trade off to forward messages.
On the one hand, if you only receive messages for customers, then their e-mail is stored on your hard drive until they retrieve it via POP3 and download it to their hard drive. Unless of course, then only access their mail via web mail, and always leave their mail on your server's hard drive. On the other hand, forwarding mail keeps the mail on your hard drive only long enough to then send it somewhere else to be stored on some other server's hard drive. Forwarding uses twice as much bandwidth, but that is only a concern if the person constantly receives large file attachments, which is very doubtful. The problem comes when your customer is a local user who sends say a 5 MB attachment to a couple of hundred people through your server. The best way to approach it is to charge a flat fee for hosting, and avoid charging for anything and everything. Those little charges drive customers away. PostfixGate A member supported Anti-Spam Database for Postfix, Sendmail, IMail, and many other *nix MTAs. www.postfixgate.com ******************** Tel: 509-344-2001 Fax: 509-226-0710 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keeper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 11:16 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] One Simple Query > Can anyone help me with this simple query because I've being getting > different answer from different sources. > > Question = When I create an alias which forward to an external mail server > will the whole email get stored within Imail then resend to the destination > server? How about a forward? The reason I ask is because I need to know > whether I should charge my client for the bandwidth usage. Do imail log the > forward traffic within the log file? > > Thanks > Bo Wee > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
