e-mail aliases for users

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Hi,

I just changed to another hoster and am new to this interface. All my e-mail accounts (= users) used to have several e-mail aliases.
I can't find how to add an aliases list to each e-mail account. Almost everything ends up at the catch-all account now.

Am I blind or is this feature not available?

Ruud.
 
At the control panel take the option forwarders -> create new forwarder.
at forwarder name add the alias.
Target mail, add the POP3 mail adress

Good luck
 
but that's "forwarding" back through the mail server; rather than "aliasing" into a mailbox.

I always understood that the distinction was significant; and historically based in .alias and .forward files.

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You're absolutely right. Historically. Using sendmail.

Exim is not sendmail.

It does it's own routing (it does NOT use a separate router) so all email goes back through it, and it gets routed properly based on whether or not the domain is handled locally.

Jeff
 
Yeah, I'm learning about that; and kind of like it.

Is there an appropriate way to get Exim to reject, rather than to accept, incoming mail which it later bounces?

That'd be sweet.
 
It does for me by default.

Using an exim.conf file which I wrote and which has been included in DA for some time.

If you post the first five or six lines of your /etc/exim.conf file I can give you some insight, depending on which version you're using.

Jeff
 
Going back to the way Exim handles traditional aliases as forwards, does the originator of the message, or the forwarder of the message, get to keep the message, or receive the notice, when the destination box is full?
 
I'm not sure how to answer this...

If you set up a forwarder, the email will be forwarded.

If you set up a mailbox, the email will go to the mailbox.

If you set up both, the email will go to the mailbox and be forwarded.

Jeff
 
Hi Jeff,

A full mailbox will not take the mail. If this is correct, then what happens to the mail which was forwarded to a full box?

Thanks,
--Maynard
 
I believe that a full mailbox will only refuse mail if it's on a partition that has quotas enabled.

If exim cannot write mail to the spool file I believe it returns it.

Which isn't a good idea, for reasons I've written about before. So one probably shouldn't have mail on a partition with quotas enabled.

But that's my opinion :) .

Jeff
 
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