[BlueOnyx:15307] 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?
> 
Sorry, addendum to that. I can now add the "info" alias. I tried setting up
a mailing list to see if that is the way to send an email to multiple
recipients but couldn't quite work it out.