I have a VPS with Postfix. E-mail is working – I can send messages to and from it, tested using mutt and my GMail account.
However, I want to forward all mails send to my VPS to my GMail account so it's all in one place.
I tried specifying my gmail address in my .forward, but after doing so, e-mails just get lost completely. They don't show up in mutt, and they don't show up in GMail.
mail.log suggest that the e-mail was sent on, and there are no errors that I can see in mail.err. From my perspective it looks as if GMail is just receiving the e-mail and discarding it, but that can't be right!
Addendum: Specifying my forwarding e-mail address in /etc/postfix/virtual leads to the same result:
Apr 4 08:49:28 vps-375 postfix/smtpd[16235]: 8062044D1B2F: client=mail-qw0-f48.google.com[209.85.216.48]
Apr 4 08:49:28 vps-375 postfix/cleanup[16239]: 8062044D1B2F: message-id=<BANLkTina6U==71+ZW-bafMbE6QCHqeYQ4g@mail.gmail.com>
Apr 4 08:49:28 vps-375 postfix/qmgr[15970]: 8062044D1B2F: from=<redacted@gmail.com>, size=1581, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr 4 08:49:29 vps-375 postfix/smtp[16240]: 8062044D1B2F: to=<redacted+domain@gmail.com>, orig_to=<dave@domain.net>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.143.27]:25, delay=1.3, delays=0.41/0.02/0.36/0.52, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1301903372 m53si9513199wej.191)
Apr 4 08:49:29 vps-375 postfix/qmgr[15970]: 8062044D1B2F: removed
Any suggestions?
Best Answer
It turns out the problem here was GMail not showing e-mails forwarded back to it. Sending an e-mail from other addresses were correctly forwarded. GMail seems to discard the messages that are forwarded back to it.