Email forwarding specification: Is domain required

[McCarthySites]

My prior hosting company's setup what I would do is create one email
account (realaccount) then setup forwarding as follows:

realaccount would usually be a cryptic name like foo345

realname -> realaccount
realname.reallastname -> realaccount

My question is, when I setup these forwards, do I need the domain:

realname -> realaccount@mydomain.com

or is

realname -> realaccount

good enough?

Thanks,

Brian

fyi - this:

http://support.hostnine.com/index.ph...kbarticleid=78

says 'enter full email' however, when the domain is the same domain, is it required?


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update:

I have been adding multiple addressess
larrry@foo.bar goes to => foo@bar.com,localaddress

In which case, the result would be two forwards listed
larry@foo.bar => foo@bar.com
larry@foo.bar => localaddress

If, I enter only the 'localaddress' the result shows:

larry@foo.bar => localaddress@foo.bar

--- Short answer is - long address is added by the software in some cases, so it most likely
is required.

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I need some sleep !

[McCarthySites]

Just an FYI on setting up forwarding.

If you have account 'jones' and you setup a forwarding (to somewhere else) the 'jones' account will still receive a copy of that email message (along with it going to the forwarded address).

Brian

[jrawly]

It is needed as far as I can remember.

Also, you don't need to create a mail account to have a forwarder

[rondel76]

I don't know if it's clear what you're talking about. From my perspective, you go to cpanel > email > forwarders and then you have three fields to fill in: blank @ then there's a drop down menu for you to select the domain you want to use and then the field for where you want the email to end up such as a web based gmail account or something. I guess to answer one of the questions, you need the domain name. How else would you get an address at a domain name if you don't have it? Then you park it on the site or add it as an add-on domain and you can build on it. Does this help? Let me know if you need further explanation.

[McCarthySites]

I suspect I wasn't too clear in my initial post :-)

Brian