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Title: change primary email address
Post by: gwag on April 09, 2007, 06:01:55 AM

How do I change a users primary email address to something besides username@domain?
user gets to much SPAM would like to use a pseudonym for now and switch in a month or so.
surely I do not have to create a new user account?
nut shell
user is jsmith@ now
and I want him to be john@
and sending from john but receive jsmith for a month or so.
Thanks

Title: change primary email address
Post by: gbentley on April 09, 2007, 08:25:25 AM

Its not hard, creating a new user account.

Its not hard, creating a pseudonym.

Personally I wouldnt bother doing either but I would look at the following ;

Spam filtering: Custom Option, Add RBL Blacklists (see this forum!)

Title: change primary email address
Post by: bpivk on April 09, 2007, 11:14:42 AM

Check this howto http://www.sonoracomm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=32 it should help you reduce spam.

Title: change primary email address
Post by: gwag on April 09, 2007, 07:48:50 PM

spam filtering and 7 RBL's are in effect and it does block a ton of it.
If i have to make a new account fine I just figured there was an easy way?
Help would be appreciated.

Title: change primary email address
Post by: bpivk on April 09, 2007, 08:04:02 PM

Well your first post was correct.
You could create a pseudonym and disable incoming mail on the old account.

Disabling could be done trough an alternate pseudonym adress (make a pseudonym or edit the user settings for the old adress to some other account if you have one so that you can monitor for legitimate mail).
Or you could blacklist the domain that makes problems (i added some free domains and got rid of the problem).

Title: change primary email address
Post by: gwag on April 10, 2007, 05:59:33 AM

thank you bpivk

I have been working with exchange for so long it never occurred to me that the email client is what would control the "sent from" address.