Topic: email alias

[Jack]

What is the advantage of installing the email alias rpm over just using the forwarding option built into E-Smith 4.0?

[Gordon Rowell]

Jack wrote:

> What is the advantage of installing the email alias rpm over
> just using the forwarding option built into E-Smith 4.0?

They are complementary features - aliases are not a replacement for the forwarding feature.

The forwarding option allows you to redirect the mail for a particular user to somewhere else (i.e. offsite to some remote location), optionally storing a local copy of the mail.

The (unsupported) e-smith-alias RPM allows you to set up general email aliases, so you can do things like direct "support@my.dom.ain" to a list of users.


Gordon