Can you forward email to another forward?

[ryk]

I have a HostMonster email address of "myname@mydomain.com"
I have a Gmail address of "myname@gmail.com"

I also have many forwards setup to forward to my "myname@mydomain.com" address. I now realize that if I forward all mail from "myname@mydomain.com" to "myname@gmail.com", then everything's cool on Gmail, but the email would remain also in my HostMonster email box.

From reading the forums, I know that normally to prevent mail from accumulating on HostMonster, you would just not create an actual mailbox called "myname@mydomain.com" and instead just setup a forwarder of that name (which forwards to Gmail.)

So the question is, if I now delete my mailbox "myname@mydomain.com", then setup a forwarder for that name to go to Gmail, will my other forwards to "myname@mydomain.com" work, cascading email from many forwards to one, which then forwards to Gmail? (How's that for a long sentence?? ;-)

Right now I actually just have Gmail using IMAP to pull my email from HostMonster, but the problem with that is that it only checks once an hour. I'd like to push email to Gmail instead of pulling from Gmail, without leaving a copy of the email on HostMonster.

Thanks!

[ryk]

Well, I was surprised that nobody answered this, so I ended up trying it out myself. I found that I could forward non-existing addresses to another non-existing address, and finally forward that one to Gmail. Everything works just fine.

[shadmego]

I seriously thought I did answer this.

Every blue moon, I will answer a thread and then later, my post won't be there. Sometimes it ends up in a different thread all together. Anyway, if I did respond to your thread, I would have said what you found out, but I would have questioned why you needed to string forwards together like that. I always think of it like this:

The more links in a chain, the more likely it is that one of the links will break. If you needed more than one email to get forwarded to your gmail account, I would have just set up forwards for email to go directly to gmail. That way, getting email from one account doesn't depend on getting email from another.

~regards, and I apologize for the oversight in not getting your question answered. (and welcome to the community!)