[BlueOnyx:15305] Re: Email Aliases

[Richard Sidlin]

> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> > I have set up a new site and
> > want to add an email alias called "info" to one of the users but it
> > tells me that it is already in use on this system. What happens if I
> > want to use info in different virtual sites, is this possible?
> 
> There is a difference between "username" and "alias". Both must be unique.
> But in different places.
> 
> username: Must be unique on the server. Once you create one user named
> "sales", that name is taken and nobody else on the same server might have
> it. There are certain reserved usernames that cannot be used for Vsite
users.
> Such as "admin", "postmaster" and a few others.
> 
> alias: Must be unique, too. But only on a per site basis.
> 
> So if you want to have sales at ... for multiple users on the same box, you
> create a unique username for them. Like "site1_sales", but it could as
well be
> "johndoe". Doesn't really matter as long as it is unique. Then you edit
that
> account and give it the "Email Alias" of "sales".
> 
> That way the user can be emailed to at site1_sales at ... as well as
sales at ...
> and it'll be all good. And you can do that for more than one site, as long
as the
> username is not yet taken already.
> 
> --
OK, I understand that. I have set up a new site and tried to add "info" as
an alias to user "David" and it wouldn't let me. That is the first alias I
tried to set up on that virtual site. I have successfully set up the alias
"sales". If I want more than one person within the same site to receive
"sales" emails, is this possible?