Alias Administration

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An e-mail alias is an alternative for a user's e-mail address, a group of user's e-mail addresses, or an application that performs additional e-mail functions. An e-mail alias looks like an e-mail address, but it is a name defined within an e-mail domain to represent a logon name. Therefore more than one e-mail alias may refer to a POP3 account. IMail Server supports the following alias types:

• Standard alias
• Group alias
• Program alias
• Beeper or Pager alias
• Domain alias

To comply with the Internet mail RFC specifications, you must have a postmaster alias so Internet mail users can send mail to postmaster@your_domain_name. IMail Server automatically sets up the postmaster alias to point to the root account. You can change the postmaster alias to point to a different mail account.

Aliases display as follows:

• Domain: Shows the current selected domain. From the drop down you can pick any of the domains available to this administrative user account.
• Search. Requires entering a minimum of two characters, and the search will automatically begin narrowing the list of users. The search assumes a wildcard automatically after the characters entered. Search target includes both the "Username" and "Full Name" columns as criteria for search selection.

  Caution: Search requires a minimum of two characters for the search process to begin.

  Note: Column Titles when clicked will sort the user list for the current session only. Refreshing the page will reset to Username sorting. Example. Clicking on the "Disabled" column heading twice will sort all the disabled users to the top of the page.Search box. Enter an alias name that you want to search for in the list of available aliases, then click Search.

• Name list. Click an alias name to modify an alias. Click or to sort the list.

  Note: You cannot change the alias type; for example, you cannot change a Standard alias to a Group alias. If you want to use an existing alias name for another type of alias, delete the existing alias and create a new alias of the desired type. The exception to this rule is that a standard alias will automatically be converted to a Group alias if more than five users are added to it.  

• Type. This column lists the type of alias: program, group, standard, beeper, or pager.
• Resolves To. This column lists the originating program, group, or standard, beeper, or pager for which the alias was created.

Add. Click Add to create a new alias name on IMail Server. For more information, see Adding an Email Alias.

Edit. To edit an aliases, first select, then click Edit.

Delete. Select an alias that you want to delete from the Alias name list, then click Delete to delete the alias.

Related Topics

Adding an E-mail Alias

Adding an Alias using Addalias.exe