Limit on forwarding to forwarding addresses?

[mavreela]

I have set our mail up with individual pop mail boxes identified by name.

I have then set up forwarding rules for the 'friendly and functional' address forms such as enquires@... support@...

Because we have parked domains I have set these to forward to the main domains equivalent address, e.g. support@parkeddomain points to support@maindomain.

Now for some addresses I want the mail to be delivered to several people and so it made sense to create group@maindomain which is listed multiple times to forward to all those.

This gives us the following

Mail sent to: support@parkeddomain
This forwards to: support@maindomain
This forwards to:
groupofpeople@maindomain
This forwards to:
personame@maindomain (POP account) and otherpersonname@maindomain (POP account) etc.

(All of this takes place on the Jaguar servers, none of the forwarding goes to any other provider)

From my perspective in administering mail this is a clean and elegant solution, but I don't know if it is good practice to forward so many times. It works but are there any risks?

Thanks.

[jason]

I don't think there are any risks, considering that everything is happening locally. If you were going to any remote servers the fact that the mail was bounced so many times could possibly set off a flag of some sort, but probably not. Bouncing mail around like that does slow down its arival time, but again, since it doesn't have to leave the server this won't be much of an issue here.

Personally speaking, setting up forwarders like that would drive me nuts if I had to maintain it, but to each his own. If that solution works for you, then by all means use it.

--Jason