Server-based Forwarding
The domain name (the part appearing to the right of @ in an email address) defines the target server(s) for the corresponding class of addresses. A domain may also define backup servers; they have no mailboxes and forward messages without changing any part of their envelopes. By contrast, primary servers can deliver a message to a user's mailbox and/or forward it by changing some envelope addresses. ~/.forward files (see below) provide a typical example of server-based forwarding to different recipients.
Email administrators sometimes use the term redirection as a synonym for server-based email-forwarding to different recipients.
Because of spam, it is becoming increasingly difficult to reliably forward mail across different domains, and some recommend to avoid it if at all possible.
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)