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Email aliases
The Email Alias feature allows you to create an arbitrary e-mail
addresses without creating a user account on the RaQ 3. An email
message addressed to the alias is forwarded to an existing email address.
For example, an email alias lets you setup a temporary or permanent
alias email address such as [e-mail] and automatically
route messages to a specific email user's mailbox.
Each registered user on the RaQ 3 must have a username that is unique
across all virtual sites on the RaQ 3. You cannot create two users with
the same name on different virtual sites because all users share the same
password database file ( /etc/passwd ). For example, if there is a user
with the username <mary> on virtual site abc.com, no other registered
user on the RaQ 3 can have the username <mary>.
Usernames can be similar: mary, maryb, mary1, mary2
An email alias is a way to create an account so that more than one user
can have the same email name on different virtual sites (<mary> on
abc.com and <mary> on xyz.com). However, the underlying username
for each person must be unique.
For example, the Site Administrator of abc.com can give Mary Brown
the username <mary>; her email address is [e-mail]. The Site
Administrator of xyz.com (on the same RaQ 3) can give Mary Smith the
username <marys>; the Site Administrator can then set up an email alias
[e-mail] for Mary Smith. The alias points her incoming
messages to the unique username of <marys> at xyz.com."
A site user can have several email aliases that point to a unique
username. For example, John Smith (username <john1>) can have
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
and [e-mail] which all point to his username of <john1> at
abc.com.
A Site Administrator can also set up aliases such as
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail] or [e-mail] that point to a specific
username.