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Hi, apologies if this has been asked before but here is my dilema:

 

I have my billing section (where whmcs is installed) on a seperate cPanel account (using SSL) to my main hosting section:

 

main hosting section: http://mydomain.com

billing section (whmcs): https://billing.mydomain.com

 

Now I need my clients to email techsupport@mydomain.com and for piping to work. But the only way I can see to get this working would be to email techsupport@billing.mydomain.com which seems a little arsey!!

 

Is there another way around this so I can set up piping on techsupport@mydomain.com

 

Also, dont ask me why I set up two seperate accounts and not just a sub domain... I didn't it was my VPS provider for some reason. LOL I never DID understand it.

 

Carl.

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Ok, so i guess I should get the piping set up and working on the billing.mydomain.com side first. But I am getting errors:

 

In cpanel there is an option for piping to a program... is this what I should use?

I have copied the pipe URL from support departments in WHMCS which looked like this:

 

| php -q /home/billing/public_html/clientarea/pipe/pipe.php

 

and pasted it into cPanel. I got the message that "hashbrowns" or something needed sorting out so clicked on the button for cPanel to sort this out for me.

 

But I am not getting support tickets delivered.

 

Any advice?

 

Carl

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Ok i think im getting somewhere:

 

If i send an email to techsupport@billing.mydomain.com then a new ticket is generated and all is well.......

 

I have set up a forwarder from techsupport@mydomain.com to fwd to techsupport@billing.mydomain.com and have tried sending mail to techsupport@mydomain.com and ........... NOTHING.

 

Any ideas?

 

Carl

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Excellent

 

What did you do in case other users have the same issue?

 

Well, in WHMCS/Support Departments I had the email addresses for the departments set to techsupport@billing.mydomain.com and it wouldn't work

 

So I set them back to techsuport@mydomain.com and it works fine now.

 

So to recap:

 

I forwarded all mail from techsupport@mydomain.com to techsupport@billing.mydomain.com

 

and in WHMCS make sure the support department email address is the ORIGINAL address not the forwarded address. This seems a little backwards, but it worked for me.

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Well, in WHMCS/Support Departments I had the email addresses for the departments set to techsupport@billing.mydomain.com and it wouldn't work

 

So I set them back to techsuport@mydomain.com and it works fine now.

 

So to recap:

 

I forwarded all mail from techsupport@mydomain.com to techsupport@billing.mydomain.com

 

and in WHMCS make sure the support department email address is the ORIGINAL address not the forwarded address. This seems a little backwards, but it worked for me.

 

I know this thread is aging but I have a question.

 

I have my WHMCS set up on a separate server/network. When I set up my forwarding TO my WHMCS box, do I need to set up a separate email for each incoming forward from the other system, for example:

billing@domain.com -to- billing@whmcsbox.com

support@domain.com -to- support@whmcsbox.com

OR can they all forward to the same address on the WHMCS box?

Example:

billing@domain.com -to- someaddy@whmcsbox.com

support@domain.com -to- someaddy@whmcsbox.com

 

I don't care if I have to set the piping up once or multiple times, just would like to know the most efficient and preferred method.

 

Thank you!

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You will need to setup a forwarder on your mydomain.com account to forward the email to your billing.mydomain.com account or, setup a subdomain the other way.

OR use POP instead of PIPE

Sorry to bump up an old thread, but I am curious to know what the 'other way' of setting up a sub-domain is. In cPanel, it's set up as http://sub.domain.com/ but is also accessible at http://www.domain.com/sub (that is, a sub-domain is created as a sub-directory within public_html, the main account's web root.

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Sorry to bump up an old thread, but I am curious to know what the 'other way' of setting up a sub-domain is. In cPanel, it's set up as http://sub.domain.com/ but is also accessible at http://www.domain.com/sub (that is, a sub-domain is created as a sub-directory within public_html, the main account's web root.

Hi,

 

That is the other way.

This account was setup with a subdomain as the main domain on a seperate cPanel account to the main domain. So www.domain.com/sub would not have worked

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