Topic: Configure email account for a specific virtual domain

[robk810]

Hi There.

Apologies if this has been answered somewhere else... I just haven;t been able to find it.

I look after an SME 8.0 server that is used exclusively for mail hosting.

The server currently hosts mail for several different email domains. All email domains are using the Primary iBay. This has been working fine for several years.

An example of the domains in use are as follows:

domain1.com (primary)
domain2.com
domain3.com

If I create a user, they end up with the following email accounts.

Eg username: sales
email addresses: sales@domain1.com (primary), sales@domain2.com, sales@domain3.com

I wish to add another domain to the server in order to host a new domain.. eg domain4.com

What I need to do though is set up a user with an email account of just sales@domain4.com

I can't do this at the moment as there is already a user called "sales" and that user has the three email accounts already listed above.

There does not appear to be any way to create an account and then set the email suffix to specific domain. Does anyone know how to do this? I thought that maybe setting up a new ibay and then adding domain4.com and selecting the new ibay for that domain may work but there still does not appear to bee any option in the GUI to specifically select domain4.com as the suffix on the email account.

Does anyone know if it's possible to do this and if so, can someone point me in the right direction?

Cheers.

Rob.

[guest22]

Hi and welcome!

email addresses are bound to domains, but not to users. We generally *think* they are, but they are not. On top of that, you can create a zillion email addresses without having  1 single user account. This is all explained in the manual.

First you have to add the new domain via the server manager, otherwise SME Server will not handle, know or act as the domain server for what is recorded by the appointed DNS server.

Then you can create the *ALIAS* sales@domain4.com and indicate to which user account the mail should go to. I assume this is also the case with *.domain1 through *.domain3 email addresses.

HTH

guest

[robk810]

Ahh. Ok. I figured there was a way.

I believe this is the part of the manual that you are referring to?

http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter9

Funny that the manual makes reference to pretty much the same naming examples I had in my question. Didn't realise that pseudonyms worked in that way. will have a crack at it tonight.

Regards,

Rob.

[janet]

rob & other readers

...... the manual makes reference to ......... Didn't realise that pseudonyms worked in that way.

Yes Pseudonyms are very useful, you can also have "nested" or multiple levels of pseudonyms where a pseudonym points to another pseudonym  that also points to yet another pseudonym. Good for managing job position email addresses within an organisation when users leave regularly, saves the admin from doing a lot of changes when staff change.

Understanding pseudonyms is just one of the reasons that new or less knowledgable users of SME/Koozali server SHOULD read the Manual.
There is much useful & interesting information to be learnt by reading the Manual.

The suggestion often given in these forums to Read the Manual is not the insult that some people seem to take it as.

There is valuable information in the manual & it is updated & enhanced as needed.